Section 9 (5) of the Peaceful Assembly Act (PAA) 2012 criminalises the organiser's failure to give a 10-day notice before a gathering is therefore unreasonable, the Court of Appeal says in its written judgment which was released in Putrajaya yesterday.

That section amounted to an effective prohibition against urgent and spontaneous assemblies, Court of Appeal judge Mah Weng Kwai said in his 29-page judgment.