PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY ACT 1992 - SECT 12 Application for refusal to authorise public assembly

PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY ACT 1992 - SECT 12

12 Application for refusal to authorise public assembly

(1) If an assembly notice is given to the Commissioner, or local authority concerned, (the
"relevant authority" ) not less than 5 business days before the day specified in the notice as the day on which it is proposed that the public assembly be held, the relevant authority may apply to a Magistrates Court for an order refusing to authorise the holding of the assembly.

(2) The Court must be in the Magistrates Courts District in which the public assembly is proposed to be held.

(3) The Court may, by order—

(a) refuse to authorise the holding of the public assembly; or

(b) specify conditions that are to apply to the holding of the public assembly.