Public Security Ordinance (Part II)
5. (1) The President may make such regulations (hereinafter referred to as
“emergency regulations” as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in
the interests of public security and the preservation of public order and the
suppression of mutiny, riot or civil commotion, or for the maintenance of
supplies and services essential to the life of the community.
8. No emergency regulation, and no order, rule or direction made or given thereunder shall
be called in question in any court.
9. No prosecution or other criminal proceeding against any person for any act purporting to
be done under any provision of any emergency regulation or of any order or direction made
or given thereunder shall be instituted in any court except by, or with the written sanction of,
the Attorney-General; and no suit, prosecution or other proceeding, civil or criminal, shall lie
against any person for any act in good faith done in pursuance or sup posed pursuance of
any such provision.
