Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (Designated Area) Order 2005  

The noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, is a fine lawyer, so he will know how to interpret the section as well as I. It states that the area may be specified by description. It then says,"““no point in the area so specified may be more than one kilometre in a straight line from the point nearest to it in Parliament Square." It is therefore clear that the Act permits such a designated area and permits my right honourable friend the Home Secretary, in consultation with the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, to designate that area. Once it is so designated, any demonstration which takes place falls to be one to which the commissioner is entitled to set conditions. It would of course be open to him not to set conditions if he felt that none was necessary or appropriate and proportionate. It does not in any way prescribe in this section that a demonstration must be limited. It is any place within the designated area which would fall to be considered.