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Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Imprisonment 5 of 23 obligations carry imprisonment (7 years). 16 carry different penalties and 2 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person18 Director or Officer3

Plus 2 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 162 duties

Companies Act 2006 126 duties

Insolvency Act 1986 77 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 68 duties

Building Societies Act 1986 32 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

New Offences

5 of 12 sections shown

s.002 Violent disorder. Imprisonment

Engage in violent disorderAny Person

s.004 Fear or provocation of violence. Imprisonment

Use threatening words or behaviour to provoke violenceAny Person

s.004 Intentional harassment, alarm or distress. Imprisonment

Intentionally cause harassment, alarm or distress with words or behaviourAny Person

s.004 Intentional harassment, alarm or distress on account of sex Imprisonment

Harass, alarm or distress someone because of their sexAny Person

s.005 Harassment, alarm or distress. Prosecution

Threatening behaviour causing harassment, alarm or distressAny Person

Fine up to £1,000

7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.001 Riot.

s.003 Affray.

s.006 Mental element: miscellaneous.

s.007 Procedure: miscellaneous.

s.008 Interpretation.

s.009 Offences abolished.

s.010 Construction of other instruments.

Part 2

Processions and Assemblies

4 of 10 sections shown

s.011 Advance notice of public processions. Prosecution

Fail to give advance notice of a public processionAny Person

Fine up to £1,000

s.012 Imposing conditions on public processions. Imprisonment

Fail to comply with police conditions on a public processionAny Person

s.013 Prohibiting public processions. Imprisonment

Organise a prohibited public processionAny Person

s.014 Offences in connection with trespassory assemblies and arrest therefor. Imprisonment

Organise or participate in a banned trespassory assemblyAny Person

6 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.014 Imposing conditions on public assemblies.

s.014 Prohibiting trespassory assemblies.

s.014 Stopping persons from proceeding to trespassory assemblies.

s.014 Imposing conditions on one-person protests

s.015 Delegation.

s.016 Interpretation.

Part 3

Hatred against persons on religious grounds

5 of 16 sections shown

s.029 Publishing or distributing written material Imprisonment

Publish or distribute threatening material stirring up hatredAny Person

s.029 Broadcasting or including programme in programme service Imprisonment

Broadcast programme stirring up religious or sexual orientation hatredDirector or Officer

s.029 Possession of inflammatory material Imprisonment

Possess threatening material to stir up hatredAny Person

s.029 Power to order forfeiture Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Court must order forfeiture of inflammatory written material or recordings upon convictionTribunal / Court

s.029 Offences by corporations Imprisonment

Corporate officer liability for Part 3A offencesDirector or Officer

11 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.029 Meaning of “religious hatred”

s.029 Meaning of “hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation”

s.029 Use of words or behaviour or display of written material

s.029 Public performance of play

s.029 Distributing, showing or playing a recording

s.029 Powers of entry and search

s.029 Protection of freedom of expression

s.029 Protection of freedom of expression (sexual orientation)

s.029 Savings for reports of parliamentary or judicial proceedings

s.029 Procedure and punishment

s.029 Interpretation

Part 3

Racial Hatred

4 of 13 sections shown

s.019 Publishing or distributing written material. Imprisonment

Publish or distribute threatening written material stirring up racial hatredAny Person

s.022 Broadcasting or including programme in cable programme service. Imprisonment

Broadcast or include threatening/abusive/insulting material stirring up racial hatredDirector or Officer

s.023 Possession of racially inflammatory material. Imprisonment

Possess racially inflammatory materialAny Person

s.025 Power to order forfeiture. Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Court must order forfeiture of offensive written material or recordingsTribunal / Court

9 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.017 Meaning of “racial hatred”.

s.018 Use of words or behaviour or display of written material.

s.020 Public performance of play.

s.021 Distributing, showing or playing a recording.

s.024 Powers of entry and search.

s.026 Savings for reports of parliamentary or judicial proceedings.

s.027 Procedure and punishment.

s.028 Offences by corporations.

s.029 Interpretation.

Part 4

0 of 1 section shown

1 other section in this Part — procedural and definitional

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Part 5

Miscellaneous and General

1 of 6 sections shown

s.038 Contamination of or interference with goods with intention of causing public alarm or anxiety, Imprisonment

Contaminate or interfere with goods to cause public alarm or harmAny Person

5 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.039 Power to direct trespassers to leave land.

s.040 Amendments, repeals and savings.

s.041 Commencement.

s.042 Extent

s.043 Short title.

Schedules

4 of 21 shown

s.sch001 After section 70 there shall be inserted the following— Alcohol... Imprisonment

Possess alcohol on a minibus to a designated sporting eventAny Person

s.sch001 (1) After section 72 there shall be inserted the following—... Imprisonment

Possess flares or fireworks at a sports groundAny Person

s.sch001 The following shall be inserted after section 1 (offences in... Imprisonment

Carry alcohol or be drunk on a minibus to a sporting eventAny Person

s.sch001 The following shall be inserted after section 2 (offences in... Imprisonment

Possess flares or fireworks at a sports groundAny Person

17 other schedules

s.sch001 The Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985 shall...

s.sch001 In section 71 (defences in connection with carriage of alcohol)...

s.sch001 In section 75 (police powers of enforcement) for “or 70”...

s.sch001 In section 77 (interpretation of Part V)—

s.sch001 The following shall be inserted after section 5— Private facilities...

s.sch001 In sections 2 and 3, after subsection (1) insert—

s.sch001 In section 7(3) (power to stop and search vehicles), after...

s.sch001 (1) Section 8 (penalties) shall be amended as follows.

s.sch001 Section 3(9) (notice varying order about sale or supply of...

s.sch001 Part V of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 (sporting...

s.sch002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

s.sch002 In section 1 of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953...

s.sch002 (1) Part V of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982...

s.sch002 The following shall be inserted at the end of Part...

s.sch002 . . . . . . . . . ....

s.sch002 In section 17(1)(c) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act...

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