{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-processions-northern-ireland-act-1998/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-processions-northern-ireland-act-1998/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/2",
  "legislation_title": "Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-processions-northern-ireland-act-1998",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Breaking up public procession.",
  "text": "(1) A person who for the purpose of preventing or hindering any lawful public procession or protest meeting or of annoying persons taking part in or endeavouring to take part in any such procession or protest meeting—\n(a) hinders, molests or obstructs those persons or any of them;\n(b) acts in a disorderly way towards those persons or any of them; or\n(c) behaves offensively and abusively towards those persons or any of them,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 14(1) inserted (23.3.2005 with application as mentioned in art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Public Processions (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/857 (N.I. 2)), art. 6(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/2/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:28.421170+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."
}