{"id":328,"date":"2006-07-26T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T11:10:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-07-26T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T11:10:01","slug":"flying-the-flag-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Flying the flag for the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flying a &#8216;national flag&#8217; can get you into hot water.&nbsp;<br \/>Football supporters who&nbsp;drape national flags from their upstairs windows are in breach of the law.&nbsp;<br \/>It is unlawful to fly a &#8216;national flag&#8217; unless it is on a vertical flagstaff. <\/p>\n<p>So daft is the prospect of a local authority taking action against such a flagrant breach of the law that the government stepped in on 24 July to propose relaxing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opsi.gov.uk\/si\/si1992\/Uksi_19920666_en_8.htm#IDAQ5O1\">Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 666 The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992<\/a>. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communities.gov.uk\/index.asp?id=1501750\">Government consultation here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying a &#8216;national flag&#8217; can get you into hot water.&nbsp;Football supporters who&nbsp;drape national flags from their upstairs windows are in breach of the law.&nbsp;It is unlawful to fly a &#8216;national flag&#8217; unless it is on a vertical flagstaff. So daft is the prospect of a local authority taking action against such a flagrant breach of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}