Explanatory Notes

Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

2005 CHAPTER 15

7th April 2005

The Act

Commentary on Sections

Part 4: Public order and conduct in public places etc.
Section 135: Supplementary directions

335.This section allows the senior officer at the scene to impose additional conditions or to vary conditions imposed by the Commissioner or later by a police officer if the senior officer reasonably believes that they are necessary for preventing the results set out in section 134(3).

336.Subsection (5)defines "senior police officer" as the most senior in rank at the scene.