Section 24.
1These regulations may be cited as the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Regulations 1973.
2The Secretary of State may by order prohibit, restrict or regulate in any area the use of vehicles or any class of vehicles on highways or the use by vehicles or any class of vehicles of roads or classes of roads specified in the order, either generally or in such circumstances as may be so specified.
3The Secretary of State, or any officer of the Royal Ulster Constabulary not below the rank of assistant chief constable, may direct any person having the management of a railway to secure that any train specified in the direction or trains of any class so specified shall stop, or shall not stop, at a station or other place so specified.
4Where it appears to an officer of the Royal Ulster Constabulary not below the rank of chief inspector that a funeral may occasion a breach of the peace or serious public disorder, or cause undue demands to be made on Her Majesty's forces or the police, he may give directions imposing on the persons organising or taking part in the funeral such conditions as appear to him to be necessary for the preservation of public order including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) conditions—
(a)prescribing the route to be taken by the funeral;
(b)prohibiting the funeral from entering any place specified in the directions ;
(c)requiring persons taking part in the funeral to travel in vehicles.
5The Secretary of State may by order require that premises licensed under the [1971 c. 3 (N.I.).] Licensing Act (Northern Ireland) 1971, premises registered under the [1967 c. 27 (N.I.).] Registration of Clubs Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 or any place of entertainment or public resort shall be closed and remain closed, either for an indefinite period or for a period, or until an event, specified in the order or shall be closed at a particular time either on all days or on any day so specified.