23.These offences are based on those in section 2 of the PTA and section 30 of the EPA, and have similar effect. The offence in section 12(1) is not confined to support by providing “money or other property”, because that kind of support is dealt with in Part III of the Act.Subsection (4) of section 12 is intended to permit the arranging of genuinely benign meetings.
Commentary Part Ii: Proscribed Organisations Sections 11–12: Membership and support