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  Serious Organized Crime and Police Bill -- Demonstrating without authorisation in designated area
  
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  <p>The Aye-voters replaced a series of clauses in the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmbills/044/05044.i-vii.html"> Serious Organized Crime and Police Bill</a> which were related to evicting the long term protester, Brian Haw, from Parliament Square, although it went much further.  </p>
  
  <p>The original text was: 
  
  <p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmbills/044/05044.87-93.html#j517"> Clause 123</a>: 
  
  <p class="indent">The senior police officer [on the scene] may ... exercise... [his] powers...
  if he reasonably believes that a person is behaving 
  in a way [that]... spoil[s] the visual aspect, or otherwise spoil[s] 
  the enjoyment by members of the public, of any part of the designated area.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmbills/005/05005.87-93.html#j518"> 
  Clause 124 </a>: </p>
  
  <p class="indent">A person who knowingly fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him... [or] incites another to behave in contravention of a requirement... may [be] arrest[ed] without warrant...</p>
  
  <p>The replaced clauses in the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldbills/024/05024.i-vii.html"> version that was delivered to the House of Lords</a> read: 
  
  <p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldbills/024/05024.90-96.html#jRC11">
  Clause 129</a>:</p>
  
  <p class="indent"> Any person who organises... or takes part... or carries on a demonstration 
  by himself in a public place in the designated area 
  is guilty of an offence if... authorisation for the
  demonstration has not been given...</p>
   
  <p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldbills/024/05024.90-96.html#jRC12"> 
  Clause 130</a>:</p>
  
  <p><b>A person seeking authorisation for a demonstration in the designated area
  must give written notice... to the [Metropolitan Police] Commissioner... 
  6 clear days before... the demonstration is to start.</b></p>
  	
  <p><b>The notice must state, the date and time..., the place..., how long it is to last,
  whether it is to be carried on by a person by himself or not,
  [and] the name and address of the person giving the notice.</b></p>
  	
  <p><b>[The] notice... must be deliver[ed] it to a police station 
  in the metropolitan police district, or sen[t]... by recorded delivery.</b></p>
  
  
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