-19- EMERGENCY DETENTION LAW BURMA Section 5A of the Public Order (Preservation) Act of 1947 empowers the President of the Union of Burma to detain a person "with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the public safety and the maintenance of public order or from committing any prejudicial act." "Prejudicial act" is defined in Section 2 as meaning an act connected with abetting or facilitating the smuggling of opium or dangerous drugs, mineral ores, rice, metals, precious stones, etc., and with offenses involving firearms or ammunition and those involving foreign exchange. No time limit is set on such preventive detention. Prepared by Mya Saw Shin Senior Legal Specialist Far Eastern Law Division Law Library The Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 July 1970 MSS:kah 7/24/70-19- EMERGENCY DETENTION LAW BURMA Section 5A of the Public Order (Preservation) Act of 1947 empowers the President of the Union of Burma to detain a person "with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the public safety and the maintenance of public order or from committing any prejudicial act." "Prejudicial act" is defined in Section 2 as meaning an act connected with abetting or facilitating the smuggling of opium or dangerous drugs, mineral ores, rice, metals, precious stones, etc., and with offenses involving firearms or ammunition and those involving foreign exchange. No time limit is set on such preventive detention. Prepared by Mya Saw Shin Senior Legal Specialist Far Eastern Law Division Law Library The Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 July 1970 MSS:kah 7/24/70-19- EMERGENCY DETENTION LAW BURMA Section 5A of the Public Order (Preservation) Act of 1947 empowers the President of the Union of Burma to detain a person "with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the public safety and the maintenance of public order or from committing any prejudicial act." "Prejudicial act" is defined in Section 2 as meaning an act connected with abetting or facilitating the smuggling of opium or dangerous drugs, mineral ores, rice, metals, precious stones, etc., and with offenses involving firearms or ammunition and those involving foreign exchange. No time limit is set on such preventive detention. Prepared by Mya Saw Shin Senior Legal Specialist Far Eastern Law Division Law Library The Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 July 1970 MSS:kah 7/24/70-19- EMERGENCY DETENTION LAW BURMA Section 5A of the Public Order (Preservation) Act of 1947 empowers the President of the Union of Burma to detain a person "with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the public safety and the maintenance of public order or from committing any prejudicial act." "Prejudicial act" is defined in Section 2 as meaning an act connected with abetting or facilitating the smuggling of opium or dangerous drugs, mineral ores, rice, metals, precious stones, etc., and with offenses involving firearms or ammunition and those involving foreign exchange. No time limit is set on such preventive detention. Prepared by Mya Saw Shin Senior Legal Specialist Far Eastern Law Division Law Library The Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 July 1970 MSS:kah 7/24/70-19- EMERGENCY DETENTION LAW BURMA Section 5A of the Public Order (Preservation) Act of 1947 empowers the President of the Union of Burma to detain a person "with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the public safety and the maintenance of public order or from committing any prejudicial act." "Prejudicial act" is defined in Section 2 as meaning an act connected with abetting or facilitating the smuggling of opium or dangerous drugs, mineral ores, rice, metals, precious stones, etc., and with offenses involving firearms or ammunition and those involving foreign exchange. No time limit is set on such preventive detention. Prepared by Mya Saw Shin Senior Legal Specialist Far Eastern Law Division Law Library The Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 July 1970 MSS:kah 7/24/70