A premier has hit out at "part-time Nazis", saying the days of them espousing racist beliefs while hiding their faces are over.

Fresh legislation has been introduced into NSW Parliament, metres from where 60 black-clad neo-Nazis yelled Hitler youth chants in an alarming rally 11 days earlier.

Though Nazi symbols are already banned in many jurisdictions, the new bans will expand to behaviour that shows support for Nazi ideology through imagery or characteristics associated with the ideology.

Anyone who repeats Nazi chants will face up to a year in prison or a maximum fine of $11,000 - a punishment that could be doubled for those who do so near a synagogue, Jewish school or the Sydney Jewish Museum.

Neo-Nazis, who often don face coverings and sunglasses in public, will find it harder to

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