Public Order Act · 2021 Revised Edition · Part 2
30. Disturbance in public places
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who -
in any public place or at any meeting uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or whereby a breach of peace is likely to be occasioned; or
public place
"public place" includes any highway, public street, public road, public park or garden, any sea beach, river, waterway, public bridge. lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, any unalienated land, any theatre or place of public entertainment of any kind or other place of general resort admission to which is obtained by payment or to which the public have access. and any open space (whether enclosed or unenclosed) to which for the time being the public have or are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise;
having been given by any police officer any direction for the purpose of preventing obstruction or keeping order in any public place, without lawful excuse, contravenes any direction so given to him, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $1.000 and imprisonment for one year.
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Terms defined in s 2
meeting
Defined · s 2"meeting" means an assembly held for the purpose of the discussion of matters of public interest or for the purpose of the expression of views on such matters;
public place
Defined · s 2"public place" includes any highway, public street, public road, public park or garden, any sea beach, river, waterway, public bridge. lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, any unalienated land, any theatre or place of public entertainment of any kind or other place of general resort admission to which is obtained by payment or to which the public have access. and any open space (whether enclosed or unenclosed) to which for the time being the public have or are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise;