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Section 3: Insulting conduct.

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Any person who— i. makes use of any threatening, abusive, insulting or obscene language, gesture, or behaviour, or says or sings any insulting or offensive song or ballad or makes any noise with intent to provoke any other person to commit a breach of the peace; or ii. makes use of any threatening, abusive, insulting, obscene or profane language, or says or sings any insulting or offensive song or ballad, or makes a noise to the annoyance of any person in any place; or iii. sends or delivers to any person any threatening, scurrilous, offensive, or obscene writing, print, engraving, picture or other representation; or iv. calls any person by a name or description other than his own, with intent to insult or annoy such person; or v. with intent to insult or annoy any person knowingly publishes, or causes to be published, in any newspaper, any false notice or advertisement of any birth, marriage or death, shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine, not exceeding twenty leones or imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or both. Intimidation or annoyance by violence or otherwise.

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