[14ZA Imposing conditions on one-person protests]

[14ZA  Imposing conditions on one-person protests]

[(1)     Subsection (2) applies if the senior police officer, having regard to the time or place at which and the circumstances in which any one-person protest in England and Wales is being carried on or is intended to be carried on, reasonably believes—

(a)     that the noise generated by the person carrying on the protest may result in serious disruption to the activities of an organisation which are carried on in the vicinity of the protest, or

(b)     that—

(i)     the noise generated by the person carrying on the protest may have a relevant impact on persons in the vicinity of the protest, and

(ii)     that impact may be significant.

(2)     The senior police officer may give directions imposing on the person organising or carrying on the protest such conditions as appear to the officer necessary to prevent such disruption or impact.

(3)     Where the one-person protest is moving, or is intended to move, from place to place—

(a)     the senior police officer must also have regard under subsection (1) to its route or proposed route, and

(b)     the conditions which may be imposed under subsection (2) include conditions as to the

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