Section 7

7. (1) The following enactments specified in the First Part of the second schedule to this Act shall, in Upper Burma, be read subject to the following modifications, namely:— (a) in Act VIII of 1851 (an Act for enabling Government to levy Tolls on Public Roads and Bridges), for the last sixteen words of section 4, the words "or of any person or property exempted by order of the Local Government from payment of tolls" shall be substituted; (b) in Act V of 1861 (an Act for the Regulation of Police), to section 2 the words "All Thugyis and Myothugyis for the time being holding office shall be police-officers, and shall be deemed to have been formally enrolled under this Act" shall be added; (c) in Act VI of 1864 (an Act to authorize the punishment of whipping in certain cases), after section 5 the section and schedule in the third schedule to this Act shall be added; (d) in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, after the words "police-officer" in section 25 the words "who is not a Magistrate" shall be inserted; (e) in the Dramatic Performances Act, 1876, the words "within such area" shall be omitted from the third paragraph of section 10, and for the first two paragraphs of that section the following shall be substituted, namely:— "No dramatic performance shall take place except under a license granted by the District Magistrate or such officer as the District Magistrate may appoint in this behalf. "Any 1886.] Upper Burma Laws. 185 (Sections 8-10.) "Any person who promotes or takes part in any dramatic performance in contravention of the foregoing portion of this section shall be punishable, on conviction before a Magistrate, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both." (2) This section does not extend to the Shan States.