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259 Flags And Coats Of Arms
Author | Ralph Hone |
Pages | #5 |
CHAPTER 259.
FLAGS AND COATS OF ARMS.
AN ACT TO IMPOSE RESTRICTIONS ON THE FLYING OF CERTAIN FLAGS AND THE USE OF THE ROYAL COAT OF ARMS AND THE COAT OF ARMS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS.
[15th July 1957.1
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This Act may be cited as The Flags and Coats of Arms Act.
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In this Act, the expression 'public place' means any highway, wharf, street, bridge and thoroughfare, and includes every place (including any foreshore or any beach or open space belonging to the Crown) to which the public under ordinary circumstances have the right of legal access, whether with or without payment of any entrance fee or gate money, and also includes all land and land covered with water contiguous to a public place from which an act constituting an offence against this Act would ordinarily be viewable by persons in such public place.
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-(1) Any person who otherwise than in conformity with the terms of a licence granted by the Governor, or under other lawful authority, flies or exhibits in any public place any of the following flags, that is to say:(a) the Royal Standard or the personal standard of any member of the Royal Family;
(b) the flag for the time being appointed to be flown by the Governor;
(c) the White Ensign, the Blue Ensign, or any flag appointed to be flown only on Her Majesty's Ships or in connection with establishments of the Royal Navy, the Army or the Royal Air Force;
(d) any flag for the time being appointed to be flown only by any Department, or any branch of any Department, of Her Majesty's Government in theUnited Kingdom or in the Colony; or 20 of 1957
G.N. 172 of 1964.
43 of 1964.
Short title.
Interpretation.
Restriction on flying certain flags.
(e) any flag so closely resembling any such flag as aforesaid that it might reasonably be taken to be that flag, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
(2) Any person who, except otherwise than in conformity with the terms of a licence granted by the Governor, or under other lawful authority, flies or exhibits in any public place(a) any flag mentioned in the foregoing subsection;or 43 of 1964, (b) the Union Jack; or 43 o.~ 1964, Third Schd. (C) the flag of any country of the Commonwealth, if the flag so flown or exhibited bears thereon any addition, or is in any way modified or defaced, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
(3) Subject as hereinafter provided, any person who in any public place flies or exhibits the national flag of any Foreign State without at the same time flying or...
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- 254 International Organisations (immunities And Privileges)
- 255 International Organisations (immunities And Privileges Of Certain Officers)
- 256 Consular Conventions (miscellaneous Prov Ision S)
- 257 United States Consul (consular Vehicle Exempt Io N S)
- 258 United States Economic Co-Operation Administration Employees (exemption From Taxation)
- 259 Flags And Coats Of Arms
- 260 Long Range Proving Ground And Oceanographic Research Stations (exemptions)
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