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Bath Climate Camp evicted - BUT THE DEMOS ARE STILL HAPPENING!

(less) Happy Camper x | 19.04.2007 20:06 | Climate Chaos | Repression | Oxford

Bath Climate Camp was today evicted by a stupidly large number of cops, part of a stupidly large polioce operation involving random stop and searches at the train station and on the streets - The reason for the eviction? Section 63 of the CRB - we were apparentley using the demo as a pretext for a free party!

But the demos will go on as planned, and crash space is avaidable -
*Friday - office hours - Demo at Land and Marine HQ near the A4 on Lower Bristol Rd
*saturday, party against petrol - meet 12 noon at Bath Abbey

If you were thinking of coming along, please still do, toshow the cops that thier bullying tactics won't stop our resistance!

(less) Happy Camper x
- e-mail: bathclimatecamp@yahoo.co.uk

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Arse!

19.04.2007 21:42

Shit man, that's rough. Hope the actions work out.

Feckin' cops!

In solidarity.

Gutted


Do you mean the Licensing Act

19.04.2007 23:05

Hi guys,
This really sucks, I was going to pop down to the camp Friday and Saturday, but I guess I'll have to settle for just the protests!

By the way, Land and Marine looks pretty well protected from what I can gather in this Bath Chronicle article! -
 http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=180730&command=displayContent&sourceNode=232315&home=yes&more_nodeId1=163047&contentPK=17141086

The following may all be well known to you guys, but I thought I'd try and find out what legal basis the police are using for evicting everyone, just in case.

Just having a look about the internet at what the police could be going on about - I didn't find out much about section 63 of the 'CRB' that was mentioned, but maybe they meant the Licensing Act 2003?
Section 63 of the Licensing Act is called '63 - Determining whether a club is established and conducted in good faith', and looks relevant.

That can be found at:  http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2003/30017--e.htm#63

While a more brief explanation is at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensing_Act_2003

While guidance for the police force on how to implement this is at:  http://www.oxford.gov.uk/files/seealsodocs/24953/guidance.pdf

And this is the form I think you have to fill out and have signed off by the Council and the Police in order for the event to be guaranteed safety under this Act (yeah i know, doesn't help at all now):
 http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/2D9F94F3-2238-4410-BA9D-7F98B154DA79/0/TemporaryEventNotice.doc






Sean


Section 63 Criminal Justice Act, not licensing

20.04.2007 09:58

Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
Part V Public Order: Collective Trespass or Nuisance on Land

63.
Powers to remove persons attending or preparing for a rave.
— (1) This section applies to a gathering on land in the open air of 100 or more persons (whether or not trespassers) at which amplified music is played during the night (with or without intermissions) and is such as, by reason of its loudness and duration and the time at which it is played, is likely to cause serious distress to the inhabitants of the locality; and for this purpose—
(a)
such a gathering continues during intermissions in the music and, where the gathering extends over several days, throughout the period during which amplified music is played at night (with or without intermissions); and
(b)
“music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.
(2) If, as respects any land in the open air, a police officer of at least the rank of superintendent reasonably believes that—
(a)
two or more persons are making preparations for the holding there of a gathering to which this section applies,
(b)
ten or more persons are waiting for such a gathering to begin there, or
(c)
ten or more persons are attending such a gathering which is in progress,
he may give a direction that those persons and any other persons who come to prepare or wait for or to attend the gathering are to leave the land and remove any vehicles or other property which they have with them on the land.
(3) A direction under subsection (2) above, if not communicated to the persons referred to in subsection (2) by the police officer giving the direction, may be communicated to them by any constable at the scene.
(4) Persons shall be treated as having had a direction under subsection (2) above communicated to them if reasonable steps have been taken to bring it to their attention.
(5) A direction under subsection (2) above does not apply to an exempt person.
(6) If a person knowing that a direction has been given which applies to him—
(a)
fails to leave the land as soon as reasonably practicable, or
(b)
having left again enters the land within the period of 7 days beginning with the day on which the direction was given,
he commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, or both.
(7) In proceedings for an offence under this section it is a defence for the accused to show that he had a reasonable excuse for failing to leave the land as soon as reasonably practicable or, as the case may be, for again entering the land.
(8) A constable in uniform who reasonably suspects that a person is committing an offence under this section may arrest him without a warrant.
(9) This section does not apply—
(a)
in England and Wales, to a gathering licensed by an entertainment licence; or
(b)
in Scotland, to a gathering in premises which, by virtue of section 41 of the M1 Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, are licensed to be used as a place of public entertainment.
(10) In this section—
“entertainment licence” means a licence granted by a local authority under—
(a)
Schedule 12 to the M2 London Government Act 1963;
(b)
section 3 of the M3 Private Places of Entertainment (Licensing) Act 1967; or
(c)
Schedule 1 to the M4 Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982;
“exempt person”, in relation to land (or any gathering on land), means the occupier, any member of his family and any employee or agent of his and any person whose home is situated on the land;
“land in the open air” includes a place partly open to the air;
“local authority” means—
(a)
in Greater London, a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London;
(b)
in England outside Greater London, a district council or the council of the Isles of Scilly;
(c)
in Wales, a county council or county borough council; and
“occupier”, “trespasser” and “vehicle” have the same meaning as in section 61.
(11) Until 1st April 1996, in this section “local authority” means, in Wales, a district council.

streetlawyer
- Homepage: http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?ActiveTextDocId=2156295


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21.04.2007 11:28

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