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Section 21: Any person who-
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(1) makes use of any threatening, abusive, insulting or
obscene language, gesture, or behaviour, or says or sings any
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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 whereby a breach of the peace is occasioned; or
(2) 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
(3) sends or delivers to any person any threatening,
scurrilous, offensive, or obscene writing, print, engraving,
picture or other representation; or
(4) calls any person by a name or description other than
his own, with intent to insult or annoy such person; or
(5) 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 penalty, not exceeding five
pounds.
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