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(6) Any police officer may use such force as may be necessary to prevent any person from entering or remaining in any public place to which access has been closed to him under this section.

12. (1) Any person who—
 * (a) neglects or refuses to obey any order given or issued under section 6 or subsection (3) of section 11; or
 * (b) contravenes any condition of a licence issued under section 7 or suffers or permits any such contravention; or
 * (c) without the permission of any police officer on duty there, enters or remains in a public place to which access has been closed to him under subsection (4) of section 11; or
 * (d) prints, publishes, displays, distributes or circulates a notice of, or in any other manner advertises or publicizes, a public meeting or public procession which is not licensed under section 7,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months.

(2) Where—
 * (a) any public meeting or public procession takes place without a licence under section 7; or
 * (b) three or more persons taking part in or forming part of a public gathering neglect or refuse to obey an order given or issued under section 6; or
 * (c) three or more persons taking part in or forming part of a public meeting, public procession or public gathering, or other meeting, procession or gathering of persons neglect or refuse to obey an order given or issued under subsection (3) of section 11,

the public meeting, public procession or public gathering, or other meeting, procession or gathering of persons, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be an unlawful assembly.

(3) Where any public meeting, public procession or public gathering, or other meeting, procession or gathering of persons, is deemed to be an unlawful assembly by virtue of subsection (2)—
 * (a) every person who takes or continues to take part in, or forms or continues to form part of, any such unlawful assembly; and
 * (b) every person who—
 * (i) holds, convenes, organizes, forms or collects, or assists or is concerned in the holding, convening, organizing, forming or collecting of, any public meeting or public procession such as is referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (2); or