Mr. Wm Rossasked the Attorney-General how many persons were prosecuted for taking part in illegal marches in Northern Ireland in 1975 and in 1976; who were the organisers of the marches concerned; and how many persons were convicted and: (a) fined, (b) fined and imprisoned and (c) imprisoned as a result of these marches.
§ The Attorney-GeneralSubsection (2) of Section 1 of the Public Order Act (NI) 1951 specifies the circumstances in which persons organising or conducting or
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Department Staff in Post 1st January 1974 Staff in Post 1st April 1976 Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ministry of … … … 15,042 15,624 Cabinet Office … … … 600 680 Charity Commission … … … 303 d342 Civil Service Department … … … 5,015 5,461 Civil Service Pay Research Unit … … … 43 38 Crown Estate Office … … … 126 124 Crown Office … … … 26 39 Customs and Excise … … … 24,841 29,390 Defence … … … 267,890 266,229* Education and Science, Department of … … … 2,915 2,918 Employment Group … … … 33,773 47,707 Energy, Department of … … … — 1,370 Environment, Department of … … … 24,560 28,559 Exchequer Office (Scotland) … … … 55 55 Export Credits Guarantee Department … … … 1,648 1,915 Foreign and Commonwealth Office … … … 10,201 10,171 General Register Office (Scotland) … … … 425 379 Government Actuary Department … … … 55 64 Health and Social Security, Department of … … … 80,940 93,101 Home Office … … … 28,261 32,267 Industry, Department of … … … — 10,140 Information, Central Office of … … … 1,246 1,371 Inland Revenue … … … 69,359 80,279 Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce … … … 414 498 Land Registry … … … 4,983 5,007 Lands Tribunal (Scotland) … … … 6 8 Law Officers' Department … … … 20 18 Lord Advocate's Department … … … 14 19 Lord Chancellor's Department … … … 9,342 9,806 National Debt Office … … … 53 64 National Savings, Department for … … … 13,378 13,420 Northern Ireland Office … … … 175 236 Office of Fair Trading … … … 96 326 Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys … … … 2,708 2,645 Ordnance Survey … … … 4,550 4,444 Overseas Development, Ministry of … … … 2,162 2,367 Parliamentary Counsel … … … 44 43 Paymaster General's Office … … … 662 772 Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of … … … 459 — Prices and Consumer Protection, Department of … … … — 382 Privy Council Office … … … 34 43 Procurator Fiscal Service … … … 317 566 Property Services Agency … … … 44,766 44,437 Public Prosecutions, Director of … … … 158 191 taking part in a public procession may commit an offence. There have been no prosecutions for contravention of this subsection in 1975 or 1976.