{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/22",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "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, 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—\n(i) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine or both;\n(ii) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 31 restricted (27.2.1997) by 1997 c. 7, s. 4(1), Sch. para. 10(d) (with s. 11(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 31 restricted (28.7.1998) by 1998 c. 35, s. 14(2)(b); S.I. 1998/1858, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/22/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:09.613224+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."
}