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PUBLIC ORDER ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1951 - SECT 5

Penalties for offences against this Act, etc.

5.(1) Any person who commits an offence under section one or under section
three of this Act shall on summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding [six months] or to a fine not exceeding [one hundred
pounds] or to both such imprisonment and such fine.

[(2) Any person who commits an offence under section 2, under sub-section (1)
of section 3A or under section 3C of this Act shall be liable

(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months
or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to both such imprisonment and
such fine; or

(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years or to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds or to both such
imprisonment and such fine.

(2A) Any person who commits an offence under sub-section (1) of section 3B of
this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding one month or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to both such
imprisonment and such fine.]

[(3) Any person who at any such meeting as is referred to in paragraph 13 of
the Ninth Schedule to the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland), 1962, commits
within the time respectively specified in that paragraph an offence under
sub-section (1) of the last preceding section, shall be guilty of an illegal
practice under that paragraph.]

Subs.(4) rep. by 1962 c.14 (NI) s.131 sch.11

(5) Any person who at any meeting other than such as are referred to in the
last two preceding sub-sections commits an offence under sub-section (1) of
the last preceding section shall on summary conviction be liable to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding [six months] or to a fine of [one
hundred pounds] or to both such imprisonment and such fine.

[(6) Any person who commits an offence under sub-section (2) of section 3A of
this Act, or under that sub-section as applied by sub-section (2) of
section 3B of this Act, or under sub-section (2) of section 4 of this Act
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.]

(7) Any person who incites or procures or endeavours to persuade others to
commit an offence under this Act shall be guilty of a like offence.

(8) An officer or constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary may without
warrant arrest any person reasonably suspected by him to be committing or to
have committed an offence against this Act.

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