preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called together, or incites others so to act, shall be guilty of an offence) shall have effect as if the following subsection were added thereto—
- “(3) If any constable reasonably suspects any person of committing an offence under the foregoing provisions of this section, he may if requested so to do by the chairman of the meeting require that person to declare to him immediately his name and address and, if that person refuses or fails so to declare his name and address or gives a false name and address he shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, and if he refuses or fails so to declare his name and address or if the constable reason ably suspects him of giving a false name and address, the constable may without warrant arrest him.”
Enforcement. 7.—(1) Any person who commits an offence under section two of this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and fine, or, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(2) Any person guilty of any other offence under this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(3) A constable may without warrant arrest any person reasonably suspected by him to be committing an offence under section one, four or five of this Act.
Application to Scotland. 8. This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the following modifications:—
(1) Subsection (2) of section one and subsection (2) of section two of this Act shall not apply.
(2) In subsection (3) of section two the Lord Advocate shall be substituted for the Attorney-General