UK Flag Flying Regulations
On 14 May 2011 at the Flag Institute Spring Meeting the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles announced his intention to liberalise flag flying regulations in the UK. The resulting discussion paper titled Liberalising the regime for flying flags was published by DCLG in January 2012. New regulations were laid before Parliament on 17 September 2012 and came into force on 12 October 2012
Charles Ashburner, Chief Executive of the Flag Institute said;
“This really is a new Freedom to Fly Flags. In our super fast world of instant news and ever changing technology, flags remain the ultimate symbol of identity. The deregulation of flag flying regulations is something which everyone who believes in freedom of expression should support. an important step towards encouraging and protecting the huge variety of different community and individual identities of which British society should be so proud.”
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