| S5 public order act - alarm, harrassment and distress/disorderly conduct | uses threatening or abusive words or behavior, disorderly conduct, or to display any threatening or abusive writing, sign, or visible representation in the presence of a person who is likely to experience harassment, alarm, or distress as a result. |
| S4A POA - Intentional harassment, alarm or distress | An individual commits an offense if, with the intent to cause harassment, alarm, or distress to a person, they engage in threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behavior, disorderly conduct, or display any threatening, abusive, or insulting writing, sign, or visible representation, resulting in such harassment, alarm, or distress to that person or another. |
| S4 POA - fear of provocation of violence | uses towards another person threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or distribute or display to another person any threatening, abusive, or insulting writing, sign, or visible representation with the intention to make that person believe that immediate unlawful violence will be directed at them or someone else by any individual, or to incite the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another, or if it is likely to make that person believe that such violence will be employed or that it is likely to provoke such violence |
| S3 POA - affray | guilty of affray if he uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another and his conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety. |
| S2 POA - violent disorder | Where 3 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence and the conduct of them taken together is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety, each of the persons using or threatening unlawful violence is guilty of violent disorder |
| S1 POA - Riot | Where 12 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them taken together is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety, each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot |
