PUBLIC ORDER ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1951 - SECT 3 Provocative conduct.

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PUBLIC ORDER ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1951 - SECT 3

Provocative conduct.

3.(1) Any person who in any public place or at or in relation to any
public meeting or public procession uses threatening, abusive or insulting
words or behaviour or displays anything or does any act or, being the owner or
occupier of any lands or premises causes or permits anything to be displayed
or any act to be done thereon, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or
whereby a breach of the peace or public disorder is likely to be occasioned,
whether immediately or at any time thereafter, shall be guilty of an offence
against this Act.

(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under the preceding sub-section,
any instrument or other thing in respect of which he is so convicted shall by
the conviction become forfeited to the Crown.[

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PUBLIC ORDER ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1951 - SECT 3