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Section 37: Dispersal of assembly after termination order

37.Dispersal of assembly after it has been ordered to be terminated

Where, upon the expiration of a reasonable time after a senior police officer has ordered an assembly to disperse under section 36(4), the assembly has continued in being, any police officer, or any other person acting in aid of the police officer, may do all things necessary for dispersing the persons so continuing assembled, or for apprehending them or any of them, and, if any person makes resistance, may use all such force as is reasonably necessary for overcoming that resistance, and shall not be liable in any criminal or civil proceedings for having by the use of that force caused harm or death to any person.

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If a senior police officer orders an assembly to break up and a reasonable time passes but the crowd does not leave, any police officer (or someone he...

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