Can someone clarify if the change in legislation makes protest illegal, or if this has been the case since March anyway?
I can see that what changed yesterday is that we now have a legal definition of a gathering:
“ There is a gathering when two or more people are present together in the same place in order to engage in any form of social interaction with each other, or to undertake any other activity with each other.”
While the powers are in force, “no person may participate in a gathering which takes place in a public or private place outdoors, and consists of more than six persons, or indoors, and consists of two or more persons”.
Does the government sense social unrest on the horizon? (triggered by mass unemployment) Is this an attempt to quash it?
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Is peaceful, socially-distanced protest now illegal?
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Redolent · 02/06/2020 15:43
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