{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1978-repealed-2781991/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1978-repealed-2781991/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/5",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 (Repealed 27.8.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1978-repealed-2781991",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Display of support in public for a proscribed organisation.",
  "text": "Any person who in a public place—\n(a) wears any item of dress; or\n(b) wears, carries or displays any article,\nin such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable apprehension that he is a member or supporter of a proscribed organisation, shall be liable—\n(i) on a summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both;\n(ii) on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine, or both.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 25 substituted by Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1987 (c. 30, SIF 39:1), s. 11(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/5/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:13.600183+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}