Section 88Part 3 — Offences Against Public Order
Causing fear, or provocation of violence
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A person who —
uses towards another person threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour; or
distributes or displays to another person any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting,
with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against that person or another by any person, or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another, or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for three years or, if the offence is committed in the night, to imprisonment for four years.
An offence under this section 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 offence under this section.