Thursday, 14 August 2025

Bills

Safer Protest with a Registration System and a Ban on Face Coverings Bill 2025

Introduction and first reading

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (09:35): I introduce a bill for an act to provide for the registration and authorisation of public protests, to give legal protection to persons who participate in authorised public protests, to provide for prohibition orders and exclusion orders, to prohibit the wearing of face coverings at public protests, to consequentially amend the Summary Offences Act 1966 and for other purposes, and I move:

That the bill be now read a first time.

Motion agreed to.

Read first time.

David DAVIS: I move:

That the second reading be made an order of the day for the next day of meeting.

Motion agreed to.