Regulation 10

If the most senior police officer present at an election meeting or election procession considers that an emergency situation is, or is likely to pose, a threat to the safety or health of persons present at that election meeting or during that election procession (as the case may be) or that there are reasonable grounds for doing so for the purpose of protecting those persons from injury or death threatened by an emergency situation, the police officer may order the election meeting or election procession (as the case may be) to immediately stop and direct the evacuation and exclusion of all persons from the place at which the election meeting or election procession (as the case may be) is held.

For the purposes of paragraph (1), any police officer may remove or cause to be removed (using such force as is necessary for that purpose) any person who does not comply with a direction to evacuate made under that paragraph or any person who enters, attempts to enter or is found in or on any place in respect of which a direction has been given under that paragraph for the exclusion of persons.

Any person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with any order or direction under paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to both.

In this regulation, “emergency situation” includes an emergency due to an actual or imminent occurrence (such as fire, flood, storm, earthquake, explosion, terrorist act, accident or epidemic) which endangers, or threatens to endanger, the safety or health of persons, or destroys or damages or threatens to destroy or damage property.