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Public Order Act 1986 (c. 64)

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Public Order Act 1986

1986 CHAPTER 64

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    New Offences

    1. 1. Riot

    2. 2. Violent disorder

    3. 3. Affray

    4. 4. Fear or provocation of violence

    5. 4A. Intentional harassment, alarm or distress

    6. 5. Harassment, alarm or distress

    7. 6. Mental element: miscellaneous

    8. 7. Procedure: miscellaneous

    9. 8. Interpretation

    10. 9. Offences abolished

    11. 10. Construction of other instruments

  2. Part II

    Processions and Assemblies

    1. 11. Advance notice of public processions

    2. 12. Imposing conditions on public processions

    3. 13. Prohibiting public processions

    4. 14. Imposing conditions on public assemblies

    5. 14A. Prohibiting trespassory assemblies

    6. 14B. Offences in connection with trespassory assemblies and arrest therefor

    7. 14C. Stopping persons from proceeding to trespassory assemblies

    8. 15. Delegation

    9. 16. Interpretation

  3. Part III

    Racial Hatred

    1. Meaning of “racial hatred”

      1. 17. Meaning of “racial hatred”

    2. Acts intended or likely to stir up racial hatred

      1. 18. Use of words or behaviour or display of written material

      2. 19. Publishing or distributing written material

      3. 20. Public performance of play

      4. 21. Distributing, showing or playing a recording

      5. 22. Broadcasting or including programme in cable programme service

    3. Racially inflammatory material

      1. 23. Possession of racially inflammatory material

      2. 24. Powers of entry and search

      3. 25. Power to order forfeiture

    4. Supplementary provisions

      1. 26. Savings for reports of parliamentary or judicial proceedings

      2. 27. Procedure and punishment

      3. 28. Offences by corporations

      4. 29. Interpretation

  4. Part IV

    1. 30–37.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  5. Part V

    Miscellaneous and General

    1. 38. Contamination of or interference with goods with intention of causing public alarm or anxiety, etc

    2. 39.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. 40. Amendments, repeals and savings

    4. 41. Commencement

    5. 42. Extent

    6. 43. Short title

  6. SCHEDULE 1

    Sporting Events

  7. SCHEDULE 2

    Other Amendments

  8. SCHEDULE 3

    Repeals

An Act to abolish the common law offences of riot, rout, unlawful assembly and affray and certain statutory offences relating to public order; to create new offences relating to public order; to control public processions and assemblies; to control the stirring up of racial hatred; to provide for the exclusion of certain offenders from sporting events; to create a new offence relating to the contamination of or interference with goods; to confer power to direct certain trespassers to leave land; to amend section 7 of the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875, section 1 of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953, Part V of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 and the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985; to repeal certain obsolete or unnecessary enactments; and for connected purposes.

[7th November 1986]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:

Commencement Information

I1Act wholly in force at 1.4.1987 by s. 41(1) and S.I. 1987/198

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