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Section 29 Display of support in public for a proscribed organisation.

Northern Ireland

Any person who in a public place—

(a)

wears any item of dress; or

(b)

wears, carries or displays 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 is guilty of an offence and liable—

(i)

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

(ii)

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

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

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Act repealed (25.8.1996) by 1996 c. 22, ss. 59, 62(1), 63(3)(7), Sch. 7 Pt. I