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2023 CHAPTER 15 An Act to make provision for new offences relating to public order; to make provision about stop and search powers; to make provision about the exercise of police functions relating to public order; to make provision about proceedings by the Secretary of State relating to protest-related activities; to make provision about serious disruption prevention orders; and for connected purposes.

by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Offence of locking on

(1) A person commits an offence if—


 * (a) they—
 * (i) attach themselves to another person, to an object or to land,


 * (ii) attach a person to another person, to an object or to land, or


 * (iii) attach an object to another object or to land,


 * (b) that act causes, or is capable of causing, serious disruption to—


 * (i) two or more individuals, or


 * (ii) an organisation,


 * in a place other than a dwelling, and


 * (c) they intend that act to have a consequence mentioned in paragraph (b) or are reckless as to whether it will have such a consequence.