Criminal Procedure Code · Updated to 1 May 2023 · Chapter VII · Security for Keeping the Peace and
68. Security for good behaviour from suspected persons, vagrants and persons disseminating seditious matter
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any person is taking precautions to conceal his presence within the local limits of his jurisdiction and that there is reason to believe that person is taking those precautions with a view to committing an offence;
there is within such limits any person who has no ostensible means of subsistence or who cannot give a satisfactory account of himself; or
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there is within such limits any person who within or without such limits either orally or in writing disseminates or attempts to disseminate or in any way abets the dissemination of―
any seditious matter, that it is to say any matter the publication which is punishable under the Sedition
Act 1948 [Act 15]; or
any matter concerning a Judge or Magistrate which amounts to criminal intimidation or defamation under the Penal Code, the Magistrate may, in the manner hereinafter provided, require that person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond with sureties for his good behaviour for such period not exceeding six months as the Magistrate thinks fit to fix.
No proceedings shall be taken under paragraph (c) against the editor, proprietor, printer or publisher of any book or newspaper registered under the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984
[Act 301], or under the Deposit of Library Material Act 1986 [Act 331], except by the order or under the authority of the Public Prosecutor.