Disturbances at meetings
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23. Section 97 of the 1983 Act(1) applies for the purposes of the referendum but as if for subsection (2) there were substituted—
“(2) This section applies to a meeting in connection with the referendum which—
(a)is held by a permitted participant during the referendum period (within the meaning given by paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the European Union Referendum Act 2015), and
(b)is held in the United Kingdom.”
(1)
Section 97 was amended by paragraph 39 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50) and Part 1 of Schedule 7 to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c.60).