When this legislation was introduced, there were concerns that it would affect civil liberties. The passage of time has put those concerns to bed and people are now satisfied that legislation such as this can survive in a democracy. There is no reason the criminal law should ignore those who direct or train individuals in unlawful organisations or grant immunity to those who possess items that could be construed as being able to commission subversive offences. There is no reason the collection of information, as set out in section 8 of the Act, should not warrant criminal sanction. Section 9 states the offence of withholding information is far reaching but not without precedence in legislation. Many Acts, for example, road traffic Acts, demand that people give additional information at certain times or face criminal sanction. There is no circumstance where a person should be allowed the luxury of silence where that silence could cause an atrocity to be perpetrated.