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  Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill - Clause 140 - Police Conditions on Public Assemblies - Retrospective
  
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  @ MP voted no to give the police the power to impose conditions on public assemblies which were initiated before a proposed change in the law on regulating demonstrations near Parliament comes into force.  
  @ MP voted aye against giving the police the power to impose conditions on public assemblies which were initiated before a proposed change in the law on regulating demonstrations near Parliament comes into force.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to give the police the power to impose conditions on public assemblies which were initiated before the proposed change in the law regulating demonstrations in the vicinity of Parliament comes into force.  
  
  MPs were considering the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill[1][2]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  :Amendment 162,Â pageÂ 94,Â lineÂ 27, leave out subsection (2).
  
  The subsection (2) in question was Clause 140(2)[3] which stated:
  
  :The public assemblies in relation to which [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/section/14 section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986] applies, as a consequence of the repeal of [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/15/section/132 section 132(6) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005], include public assemblies which started, or were being organised, before this section comes into force.
  
  Section 14 of the Public Order Act enables the police to impose conditions on public assemblies. 
  
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/policereformandsocialresponsibility.html Parliament's webpage on Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill 2011 (Now an Act)]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/151/11151.i-vii.html Version of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/151/11151.93-97.html#j606 Clause 140 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill as at the time of the vote]
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