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Orange Order Delighted At Climb Down By Parades Commission Over Forms

17 June 2005

The Orange Order says it is delighted at this afternoon's humiliating climb down by the Parades Commission in the row over Lodges rather than individual Orangemen being listed as organisers on parade forms.

Raymond Spiers, Master of No 6 Ballymacarrett Orange District, said: "This isn't a case of the Parades Commission showing flexibility as they claim; the reality is that they have been sitting on legal advice for several weeks which shows that we have been completing 11/1 notification forms perfectly lawfully.

"Once again, the Commission has demonstrated its ineptitude and total unsuitability to regulate the sensitive issues surrounding parading. It's time members of this unelected quango that was deliberately set up to criminalize Protestants did the decent thing and resigned", said Mr Spiers.

"The officers of No 6 Orange District wish to thank the unionist community of East Belfast and their elected representatives for their hard work and support which has forced the Commission to see sense and accept the legal realities of the situation."

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