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Rh "event" includes any rehearsal, sound and light testing and other ancillary activities necessary and incidental to an event;

"permit" means a permit granted under section 7 in respect of a public assembly or public procession;

"place" includes any motor vehicle, train, vessel, aircraft or other conveyance;

"procession" means a march, parade or other procession (whether or not involving the use of vehicles or other conveyances)—
 * (a) comprising 2 or more persons gathered at a place of assembly to move from that place substantially as a body of persons in succession proceeding by a common route or routes; and
 * (b) the purpose (or one of the purposes) of which is—
 * (i) to demonstrate support for or opposition to the views or actions of any person, group of persons or any government;
 * (ii) to publicise a cause or campaign; or
 * (iii) to mark or commemorate any event,

and includes any assembly held in conjunction with such procession, and a march by a person alone for any such purpose referred to in paragraph (b)(i), (ii) or (iii);

"prohibited area” means any area that is specified in an order made under section 12;

"public assembly" means an assembly held or to be held in a public place or to which members of the public in general are invited, induced or permitted to attend;

"public place" means—
 * (a) any place (open to the air or otherwise) to which members of the public have access as of right or by virtue of express or implied permission, whether or not on payment of a fee, whether or not access to the place may be restricted at particular times or for particular purposes, and whether or not it is an "approved place" within the meaning of the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act (Cap. 257); or