Section 86Part 3 — Offences Against Public Order
Affray
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A person who uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another person and whose conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for their personal safety commits affray and is liable to imprisonment for four years.
Where two or more persons use or threaten unlawful violence, it is the conduct of them taken together that shall be considered for the purposes of subsection (1).
For the purposes of this section —
a threat shall not be made by the use of words alone; and
a person of reasonable firmness need not actually be, or be likely to be, present at the scene.
An affray may be committed in a public place or a private place.
A constable may arrest, without a warrant, anyone that constable reasonably suspects is committing an affray.