Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Associations Act, 1931 (Chapter 141)
Zambia
Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Associations Act, 1931
Chapter 141
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Commenced on 27 March 1931
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This Act may be cited as the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Associations Act. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—"the Boy Scouts Association" means the Boy Scouts Association incorporated under the Royal Charter granted on the 4th January, 1912;"Boy Scout" means a Boy Scout recognised as such under the constitution, by-laws and rules of the Boy Scouts Association, and includes also all officers of the said Association;"the Girl Guides Association" means the Girl Guides Association incorporated under the Royal Charter granted on the 14th December, 1922;"Girl Guide" means a Girl Guide recognised as such under the constitution, by-laws and rules of the Girl Guides Association and includes also all officers of the said Association;"person employed in the public service" has the meaning assigned to that term by the Penal Code.[Cap. 87][As amended by No. 30 of 1949] It shall not be lawful for any person to form, organise or work in connection with, or to be concerned in forming, organising, or working in connection with—(a)any corps or body which, without due authority granted under the Royal Charter of the Boy Scouts Association, claim or purport to be Boy Scouts or otherwise to be connected with the said Association, or which hold themselves out as, or pass themselves off as, Boy Scouts or as otherwise connected with the said Association; or(b)any corps or body which, without due authority granted under the Royal Charter of the Girl Guides Association, claim or purport to be Girl Guides or otherwise to be connected with the said Association, or which hold themselves out as, or pass themselves off as, Girl Guides or as otherwise connected with the said Association.[As amended by No. 30 of 1949] Any person contravening any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding three hundred penalty units or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for one month, or to both.[As amended by No. 13 of 1994]1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Restriction on use of uniforms, etc., of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Associations
4. Prohibition of the formation, etc., of bodies claiming without authority to be connected with either of the Associations
5. Penalty in case of Boy Scouts pretending to be public officers
6. Penalties