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 * (b) control and direct the conduct of all public gatherings and specify the route by which, and the time at which, any public procession may pass;
 * (c) for any of the purposes aforesaid, give or issue such orders as he may consider necessary or expedient.

7. (1) No public meeting and no public procession shall take place save under and in accordance with the terms and conditions of a licence in that behalf issued under this section, and no public meeting and no public procession shall be advertised or otherwise publicized unless such a licence therefor has been issued.

(2) Any person wishing to hold, convene, organize or form a public meeting or a public procession shall make application for a licence in that behalf to the Commissioner of Police not less than seven days before the public meeting or public procession is to be held, convened, organized or formed and the Commissioner of Police shall, if he is satisfied that the public meeting or public procession is not likely to prejudice the maintenance of public order or be used for any unlawful or immoral purpose, issue a licence in writing in such form as he may determine, specifying the name of the licensee and defining the conditions on which the public meeting or public procession may take place.

(3) The Commissioner of Police may attach to a licence issued under subsection (2) such conditions as he may think fit.

(4) Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (2), the Commissioner of Police may refuse to grant a licence under this section if—
 * (a) the applicant or any person or society associated directly or indirectly with the application or likely in the opinion of the Commissioner of Police to be concerned in the holding, convening, organizing or forming of the public meeting or public procession has, in relation to any public gathering, at any time contravened the provisions of this Ordinance or of any other law or any condition of a licence issued under this Ordinance or any other law; or
 * (b) the public meeting or public procession has been advertised or otherwise publicized in contravention of subsection (1).

(5) This section shall not apply to—
 * (a) any public meeting exclusively for religious purposes;