7 Control of conduct within World Youth Day declared areas
(1) An authorised person may direct a person within a World Youth Day declared area to cease engaging in conduct that:
(a) …
(b) causes annoyance or inconvenience to participants in a World Youth Day event, or
(c) …
(2) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with a direction given to the person under subclause (1).
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(3) A person is not guilty of an offence under this clause unless it is established that the authorised person warned the person that a failure to comply with the direction is an offence.
(4) In this clause, authorised person means:
(a) a police officer, or
(b) …
- what you’re seeing quoted above is clause 7 of the World Youth Day Regulation 2008 (New South Wales) (from here)
- the Stumblng Tumblr’s mentioned before World Youth Day, to be held in Sydney shortly; you may remember that it isn’t for youth, but for Catholic youth, and that it doesn’t last a day, but six days (hey, at least the world bit’s right—one out of three ain’t bad)
- well, it seems now that Catholicism’s also taken on the status of an established religion for the occasion
- annoying or inconveniencing a participant in the occasion can lead to a criminal conviction
- yell out, “My dad’s red shoes are better than your Father’s”? off to the paddy wagon for you
- the image above is from here
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