Serious Crime Act 2007

Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15)

64 (1) The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 136 (penalties in relation to demonstrations in the vicinity of Parliament) for subsection (4) substitute—

“(4) A person who is guilty of an offence under section 44 or 45 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 in relation to which an offence mentioned in subsection (1), (2) or (3) is the anticipated offence (as defined by section 47(9) of that Act) is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks, to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to both.

(4A) If a person is guilty of an offence under section 46 of that Act by reference to an offence mentioned in subsection (1), (2) or (3), the maximum term of imprisonment applicable for the purposes of section 58(6) of that Act to the offence so mentioned is a term not exceeding 51 weeks.”

(3) In section 175(3) (transitional modification of penalties for summary offences in England and Wales) in the table, for the entry relating to section 136(4) substitute—

“section 136(4)	3 months
section 136(4A)	3 months”.