{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1987-repealed-2781991/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1987-repealed-2781991/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/30",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1987 (repealed 27.8.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1987-repealed-2781991",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Offences relating to behaviour and dress in public places.",
  "text": "(1) The following section shall be substituted for section 25 of the 1978 Act—\n“ Display of support in public place for a proscribed organisation.\n25 Any person who in a public place—\n(a) wears any item of dress; or\n(b) wears, carries or diaplays 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 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.”\n(2) 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. ”\n(3) After sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 19 of Schedule 4 to the 1978 Act (scheduled offences) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—\n“(ca) section 25;\n(cb) section 26;”.\n(4) Subsections (2) and (3) above shall not have effect in relation to an offence committed before the commencement of this section.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/30/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:52:34.230802+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."
}