Section 11 Offences relating to behaviour and dress in public places.

The following section shall be substituted for section 25 of the 1978 Act—

“ Display of support in public place for a proscribed organisation.

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Any person who in a public place—

(a)

wears any item of dress; or

(b)

wears, carries or diaplays any article,

in 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—

(i)

on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both;

(ii)

on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine, or both.”

In section 26 of that Act (wearing of hoods etc. in public places), for the words from “a fine not exceeding” onwards there shall be substituted “ s fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both, and on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine, or both. ”

After sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 19 of Schedule 4 to the 1978 Act (scheduled offences) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—

“(ca)

section 25;

(cb)

section 26;”.

Subsections (2) and (3) above shall not have effect in relation to an offence committed before the commencement of this section.