{"id":7253,"date":"2023-05-03T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7253"},"modified":"2023-05-03T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:51:51","slug":"public-order-act-2023-exercise-of-police-powers-in-relation-to-journalists-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/7253","title":{"rendered":"Public Order Act 2023 : Exercise of police powers in relation to journalists etc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>17 Exercise of police powers in relation to journalists etc<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(1)A constable may not exercise a police power for the sole purpose of preventing a person from observing or reporting on a protest.<br>(2)A constable may not exercise a police power for the sole purpose of preventing a person from observing or reporting on the exercise of a police power in relation to\u2014<br>(a)a protest-related offence,<br>(b)a protest-related breach of an injunction, or<br>(c)activities related to a protest.<br>(3)This section does not affect the exercise by a constable of a police power for any purpose for which it may be exercised apart from this section.<br>(4)In this section\u2014<br>\u201cinjunction\u201d means an injunction granted by the High Court, the county court or a youth court;<br>\u201cpolice power\u201d means a power which is conferred on a constable by or by virtue of an enactment or by a rule of law;<br>\u201cprotest-related breach\u201d, in relation to an injunction, means a breach which is directly related to a protest;<br>\u201cprotest-related offence\u201d means an offence which is directly related to a protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2023\/15\/part\/1\/crossheading\/exercise-of-police-powers-in-relation-to-journalists-etc\/enacted\">https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2023\/15\/part\/1\/crossheading\/exercise-of-police-powers-in-relation-to-journalists-etc\/enacted<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Exercise of police powers in relation to journalists etc (1)A constable may not exercise a police power for the sole purpose of preventing a person from observing or reporting on a protest.(2)A constable may not exercise a police power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/7253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1427,1274,177,1326,95,82,1325],"class_list":["post-7253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-2023-2","tag-act","tag-journalist","tag-order","tag-police","tag-policing","tag-public-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7254,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}