Regulation of traffic in connection with events, etc.
143.—(1)  Except as otherwise provided by rules made under subsection (11), a person must not conduct any event on any road or part thereof unless the person has obtained a permit from the Deputy Commissioner of Police under this section authorising the person to use that road or part thereof for the conduct of the event.
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(2)  The Deputy Commissioner of Police may, on his or her own motion, or upon granting a permit mentioned in subsection (1), issue police orders to —
(a)close any road or part thereof to traffic to such extent, for such period and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order; and
(b)prescribe —
(i)the routes, entrances and exits by which vehicles or pedestrians are to approach or leave the venue of an event or any place of assembly or public resort;
(ii)where and the order in which vehicles are to park at or around the venue of an event or any place of assembly or public resort;
(iii)one or more parking places upon any land at or around any venue, place of assembly or public resort that is in private ownership, if the owner or occupier of the land consents; and
(iv)any other matters that may be necessary or incidental to the closure of any road or part thereof under paragraph (a).
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(3)  An application for a permit mentioned in subsection (1) must —
(a)be made to the Deputy Commissioner of Police in such form or manner, and not less than such period before the date of the event, as the Deputy Commissioner of Police may require; and
(b)be accompanied by such fee (if any) as the Minister may prescribe.
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(4)  Upon receiving an application under subsection (3), the Deputy Commissioner of Police may, after consulting the Authority —
(a)grant the permit applied for —
(i)in the form and manner that the Deputy Commissioner of Police may determine; and
(ii)subject to any conditions that the Deputy Commissioner of Police and the Authority may each think fit to impose; or
(b)refuse to grant the permit.
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(5)  The conditions which may be imposed under subsection (4)(a)(ii) include conditions requiring the person to whom the permit is granted, at the person’s own expense —
(a)to publish, in such form and manner and for such period as the Deputy Commissioner of Police may require, a notice informing the general public or such persons as the Deputy Commissioner of Police thinks fit of —
(i)the closure of any road or part thereof under subsection (2); and
(ii)the alternative route or routes (if any) that are available for vehicles or pedestrians;
(b)to post conspicuously at any part of any road, and for such period as the Deputy Commissioner of Police may require, such notices and signs as the Deputy Commissioner of Police may specify to inform motorists and pedestrians of —
(i)the closure of any road or part thereof under subsection (2); and
(ii)the alternative route or routes (if any) that are available for vehicles or pedestrians;
(c)to place such signs, barriers and barricades at such places and for such period as the Deputy Commissioner of Police may require; and
(d)to engage a sufficient number of auxiliary police officers or security officers to regulate traffic on any road or at or around the venue of the event to which the permit relates in accordance with any directions that the Deputy Commissioner of Police may give.
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(6)  Without affecting subsection (5), the Deputy Commissioner of Police may take any measures that he or she thinks fit to implement any police order issued under subsection (2) and may deploy police officers, auxiliary police officers and security officers to regulate traffic on any road or at or around any venue affected by the police order.
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(7)  Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
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(8)  If the person to whom a permit is granted under this section fails to comply with any condition imposed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police or the Authority (as the case may be) under subsection (4)(a)(ii), that person shall be guilty of an offence, and the Deputy Commissioner of Police may revoke the permit granted to that person.
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(9)  If any person neglects or refuses to stop a vehicle or to make it proceed in or keep to a particular line of traffic or neglects or refuses himself or herself to proceed in or keep to a particular line of traffic when directed to do so by a police officer, an auxiliary police officer or a security officer, who is in uniform and who is engaged or deployed to regulate traffic for the purpose of this section, that person shall be guilty of an offence.
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(10)  Police orders issued under this section must be published in the Gazette and may be published in any other manner that the Deputy Commissioner of Police thinks fit.
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(11)  The Minister may make rules to prescribe the types of event to which subsection (1) does not apply and to make provisions subject to which any road or part thereof may be used for the conduct of any such event.
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(12)  In this section, “event” means —
(a)any sporting event (such as a marathon, a walkathon, a triathlon or a cycling rally); or
(b)any procession, parade, celebration, ceremony, gathering, activity or event,
that is to be conducted mainly or partly on a road or any part thereof, and includes a competition or trial of speed involving the use of vehicles mentioned in section 116.
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