Section 8: Strangers

8. Strangers (1) No stranger shall be entitled, as of right, to enter or to remain within the precincts of the Assembly. (2) The Speaker may issue such orders as he thinks necessary for regulating the admittance of strangers to the precincts of the Assembly. [Issue 1] N6 – 4 Revised Laws of Mauritius (3) Copies of orders made by the Speaker under subsection (2) shall be duly authenticated by the Clerk and exhibited in conspicuous positions within the precincts of the Assembly, and these copies, where so authenticated and exhibited, shall be deemed to be sufficient notice to all persons affected by them. (4) The Speaker may order any stranger to withdraw from the precincts of the Assembly. (5) Any person who, being a stranger— (a) enters the precincts of the Assembly in contravention of any order of the Speaker; (b) fails to withdraw from the precincts of the Assembly when ordered to do so by the Speaker; (c) contravenes any rule made by the Speaker under the Standing Orders; or (d) attends any sitting of the Assembly as the representative of any newspaper after the general permission granted under the Standing Orders to the representative or representatives of that newspaper has been revoked, shall commit an offence, and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 rupees, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months. [S. 8 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]