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Amend
certain provisions of the Serious Organised Crime and Police
Act 2005 |
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and other legislative restraints
on public demonstrations; and for connected |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Repeal
of offences of trespassing on designated site and of demonstrating
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without authorisation
in the vicinity of Parliament |
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(1) |
The following provisions
are repealed— |
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(a) |
sections 128 to 131 of the
2005 Act (trespass on designated site); |
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(b) |
sections 132 to 138 of
the 2005 Act (demonstrations in the vicinity of |
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section 12 of the Terrorism
Act 2006 (c. 11) (trespassing etc on nuclear |
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(2) |
The following Orders are
revoked— |
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(a) |
the Serious Organised Crime
and Police Act 2005 (Designated Sites) |
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Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3447);
and |
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(b) |
the Serious Organised Crime
and Police Act 2005 (Designated Area) |
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Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1537). |
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(3) |
In this Act “the
2005 Act” means the Serious
Organised Crime and Police Act |
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(4) |
The enactments mentioned
in Schedule 1 are repealed or revoked to the extent |
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Short
title, commencement and extent |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited as
the Public Demonstrations (Repeals) Act 2007. |
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(2) |
This Act comes into force
at the end of the period of two months beginning |
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with the day on which it
is passed. |
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