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

Before the noble Lord sits down, I want to make a correction because I do not want to mislead the Committee. It should have struck me that the demonstration on 8 July was not covered by these provisions. The offences do not come in until 1 August. The period between 1 July and 1 August is to ensure that authorisations can be obtained in time for 1 August, when authorisation will be needed. However, that does not detract from the fact that it would have been possible to have stated, even under our current legislation, that it was for security reasons and so forth. I thought it important to correct that point because I would not like to have misled the Committee.