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Public Order Bill.
Clauses 18 and 19, and also Clause 28, would permit
of
a person to be convicted an offence regardless of
whether that person had committed any improper act or
intent
formed any improper interest at material time. This seems
indefensible
to us to be indispensible. We think it would be very unwise
to tamper with common law relating to unlawful assembly
and riot.
2. In our view your problem could be met if provision
were included in the Bill authorising police officers by
suitable means to call upon an assembly or gathering as
Clause
described in Section 19(1) to disperse and making failure to
comply an offence punishable with moderate fine and/o
imprisonment (compare clauser11(2)(b) and 12(1)).
/3. It follows