مجموعة ٢٥/ ١٨ "مراسيم ملكية بريطانية: قطر: السلطة القضائية على الأجانب في قطر" [و‎‎١‎٠] (٦٣٥/١٩)

trade-marks, merchandise marks, copyright designs, or inventions, shall,
if done in Qatar by a person to whom this Order applies, be an offence
punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two
months, or with a fine which may extend to 1,000 rupees, or with both.
31.— (1) If any person to whom this Order applies:—
(i) Publicly derides, mocks or insults any religion, established or
observed within the limits of this Order; or
(ii) Publicly offers insult to any religious service, feast, or cere
mony established or kept in any place within those limits,
or to any place of worship, tomb, or sanctuary belonging to
any religion established or observed w’ithin those limits, or
belonging to the ministers or professors thereof; or
(iii) Publicly and wilfully commits any act tending to bring any
religion established or observed within those limits, or its
ceremonies, modes of worship, or observances into hatred,
ridicule, or contempt, and thereby to provoke a breach of
the public peace;
he shall be guiltv of an offence, and on conviction thereof liable to im
prisonment, which may extend to two years, with or without a fine not
exceeding 500 rupees, or to a fine alone not exceeding 500 rupees.
(2) The Political Agent shall take such precautionary measures as
seem to him proper and expedient for the prevention of such offences.
32. (1) If any person subject to this Order prints, publishes, or offers
for sale any printed or written newspaper or other publication containing
seditious matter, he shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction thereof
liable to imprisonment, which may extend to two years, with or without
a fine not exceeding 1,000 rupees or to a fine alone not exceeding 1,000
rupees, and may, in addition to, or in lieu of, any ether sentence, be
ordered to give security for good behaviour, or to be deported.
(2) Where any printed or written newspaper or other publication con
taining seditious matter is printed, published, or offered for sale within
the limits of this Order by a Company incorporated under the laws of
any part of His Majesty's dominions, protectorates, protected states or
mandated temtories, the Court may, after notice to the Company, and
on proof of the facts, require the Company to give security to abstain
from such printing, publishing, or offering for sale in future. If the Com
pany fail to give security, or if the Company is shown to have again
printed, published, or offered for sale such newspaper, or other publica
tion containing seditious matter after giving such security, the Court may
make an order prohibiting the Company from carrying on business wdthin
the limits of the Order, and may make such other orders as to the Court
may seem just. The Court may also declare all the property of the
Company within the limits of the Order to be forfeited to His Majesty,
and shall dispose of it, subject to any general or special directions of the
Secretary of State, as it thinks fit.
(3) Matter calculated to excite tumult or disorder, or to excite enmity
between persons subject to this Order and the Sheikh or Qatar subjects,
or between different classes of persons subject to this Order, or between
the Sheikh and Qatar subjects, shall be deemed to be seditious matter
within the meaning of this Article.