{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-order-northern-ireland-order-1987/article-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-order-northern-ireland-order-1987/article-19.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1987/463",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-order-northern-ireland-order-1987",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Provocative conduct in public place or at public meeting or procession",
  "text": "(1) A person who in any public place or at or in relation to any public meeting or public procession—\n(a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour; or\n(b) displays anything or does any act; or\n(c) being the owner or occupier of any land or premises, causes or permits anything to be displayed or any act to be done thereon,\nwith intent to provoke a breach of the peace or by which a breach of the peace or public disorder is likely to be occasioned (whether immediately or at any time afterwards) shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1987/463/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:01.566565+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}