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NI: UDA Proscribed

01 November 1992

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From midnight on 10th August the Ulster Defence Association has been proscribed by the Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Sir Patrick Mayhew, under the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991. Mayhew took the decision using the "urgency procedure" which means that, while the ban takes immediate effect, the order has to be ratified by parliament within 40 "sitting" days. The ban applies only to Northern Ireland. Mayhew had satisfied himself that "the UDA is actively and primarily engaged in the commission of criminal terrorist acts...For these purposes, it acts as the Ulster Freedom Fighters."

Northern Ireland Information Service Press Release 10.8 92

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