Part 3: Public order Section 75: Offences under sections 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act 1986
Subsections (3) to (6) amend section 12 of the 1986 Act to remove the need for an organiser or participant to have "knowingly" breached a condition placed on a procession in England and Wales for an offence to have been committed. New subsection (5A) provides that a person is guilty of an offence if at the time they failed to comply with the condition they know or ought to have known that the condition had been imposed.
	Subsection (6) increases the maximum sentence in England and Wales for an organiser who fails to comply with a condition from three months’ imprisonment to six months’ imprisonment and/or a fine not exceeding level 4 (currently £2,500), for a participant who fails to comply with a condition to a fine not exceeding level 4 (as against the current maximum penalty of a level 3 fine), and a person who incites a participant to commit an offence to six months’ imprisonment (as against the current maximum penalty of three months’ imprisonment) and/or a fine not exceeding level 4. On the coming into force of the increase in magistrates’ courts sentencing powers provided for in the Criminal Justice Act 2003, the maximum term of imprisonment would rise to 51 weeks’ imprisonment. Subsections (8) to (11) makes the same changes described above to the offences of breaching conditions imposed on an assembly in England and Wales, in section 14 of the 1986 Act.
	Subsection (11) makes the same changes described above to the maximum sentences for the offences of breaching conditions imposed on an assembly in England and Wales, in section 14 of the 1986 Act.
	It remains a defence for a person to prove that the breach of the condition arose from circumstances beyond their control, in relation to both processions and assemblies. These remain in subsections (4) and (5) of section 12, for processions, and section 14, for assemblies, of the 1986 Act.