Section 57Part 3 — Offences Against Public Order
Seditious intention
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A seditious intention is an intention —
to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the person of the Sovereign, His heirs or successors or the Government of the Islands by law established;
to excite the inhabitants of the Islands to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any matter in the Islands as by law established;
to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the administration of justice in the Islands;
to raise discontent or disaffection amongst the inhabitants of the Islands; or
to promote ill-will or hostility between different classes of the population of the Islands:
Provided that an act, speech or publication is not seditious by reason only that it intends —
to show that the Crown has been misled or mistaken in any of its measures;
to point out errors or defects in the Government or Constitution of the Islands;
to persuade the inhabitants of the Islands to attempt to procure by lawful means the alteration of any matter in the Islands as by law established; or
to point out, with a view to their removal, any matters which are producing or have a tendency to produce feelings of ill-will or enmity between different classes of the population.
In determining whether the intention with which any act was done, any words were spoken, or any document was published was or was not seditious, every person shall be deemed to intend the consequences which would naturally flow from that person's conduct at the time and under the circumstances in which that person so conducted themselves.
Defined Terms
seditious intention