Indemnity clause.
9. Whereas various murders are alleged to have been committed in connection with unlawful societies, and various persons have been arrested and detained in custody in connection therewith;
Now it is hereby enacted that all persons who were before the commencement of this Ordinance concerned in the arrest or detention in custody of such arrested persons are hereby fully indemnified for anything done by them in the arrest or detention in custody of such arrested persons, and no action at law or otherwise shall be maintained for such arrested persons having been so arrested and detained in custody, and no writ of habeas corpus shall be issued on their behalf.
Extent of Ordinance.
10. This Ordinance shall apply to the Colony and Protectorate.
Passed in the Legislative Council this Thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twelve.
F. A. Miller,
Clerk of Legislative Council.
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