• Arrest without warrant.
• Imprison without charge or trial: deny recourse to habeas corpus or court of law.
• Enter and search homes without warrant; with force, day or night
• Declare a curfew. Prohibit meetings, assemblies (including fairs and markets) and processions.
• Permit punishment by flogging.
• Deny claim to a trial by jury.
• Arrest persons if desired to act as witnesses. Forcibly detain them and compel them, under penalties, even if answers incriminate them. Such a person is guilty of an offence if he refuses to be sworn or answer a question.
• Do any act involving interference with the rights of private property.
• Prevent relatives or legal advisers from accessing a person imprisoned without trial.
• Prohibit the holding of an inquest after a person’s death.
• Prohibit the circulation of any newspaper.
• Prohibit the possession of any film or gramophone record.
• Arrest a person who does anything ‘calculated to be prejudicial to the preservation of peace and not specifically provided for in the regulations’.
• Arrest a person who ‘by word of mouth’ spreads false reports or makes false statements.
• Prohibit the circulation of any newspaper.
• Prohibit the possession of any film or gramophone record.
• Arrest a person who does anything ‘calculated to be prejudicial to the preservation of peace and not specifically provided for in the regulations’.
• It is, in fact, the British Special Powers Act 1922 – 1972 in Britain, Northern Ireland, which was not repealed until 1972.
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