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Public Order Act 1986

CHAPTER 64

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Part I
New Offences
Section
1. Riot.
2. Violent disorder.
3. Affray.
4. Fear or provocation of violence.
5. Harassment, alarm or distress.
6. Mental element: miscellaneous.
7. Procedure: miscellaneous.
8. Interpretation.
9. Offences abolished.
10. Construction of other instruments.
Part II
Processions and Assemblies
11. Advance notice of public processions.
12. Imposing conditions on public processions.
13. Prohibiting public processions.
14. Imposing conditions on public assemblies.
15. Delegation.
16. Interpretation.
Part III
Racial Hatred
Meaning of “racial hatred”
17. Meaning of “racial hatred”.
Acts intended or likely to stir up racial hatred
18. Use of words or behaviour or display of written material.
19. Publishing or distributing written material.
20. Public performance of play.

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