[14A Prohibiting trespassory assemblies]

[14A  Prohibiting trespassory assemblies]

[(1)     If at any time the chief officer of police reasonably believes that an assembly is intended to be held in any district at a place on land to which the public has no right of access or only a limited right of access and that the assembly—

(a)     is likely to be held without the permission of the occupier of the land or to conduct itself in such a way as to exceed the limits of any permission of his or the limits of the public's right of access, and

(b)     may result—

(i)     in serious disruption to the life of the community, or

(ii)     where the land, or a building or monument on it, is of historical, architectural, archaeological or scientific importance, in significant damage to the land, building or monument,

he may apply to the council of the district for an order prohibiting for a specified period the holding of all trespassory assemblies in the district or a part of it, as specified.

(2)     On receiving such an application, a council may—

(a)     in England and Wales, with the consent of the Secretary of State make an order either in the terms

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