{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-processions-northern-ireland-act-1998/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-processions-northern-ireland-act-1998/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/2",
  "legislation_title": "Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-processions-northern-ireland-act-1998",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Saving for powers of a constable.",
  "text": "Nothing in sections 8 to 9B or in any determination of the Commission affects the common law powers of a constable to take action to deal with or prevent a breach of the peace.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 9A, 9B and cross-heading inserted (23.3.2005 with application as mentioned in art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Public Processions (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/857 (N.I. 2)), art. 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 10 substituted (23.3.2005 with application as mentioned in art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Public Processions (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/857 (N.I. 2)), art. 4(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The insertion of the new heading \"The Commission's powers to impose conditions on protest meetings\" in the main body of the Act on 23.3.2005 gives rise to a change in the structure of this legislation on SLD which breaks the continuity of historical versions of the existing provisions which are now brought under that new heading."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/2/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:28.421170+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."
}