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Section 47: Incitement to Violence - Offence and Penalty

47.Incitement to violence

(1)Any person who, without lawful excuse, prints, publishes or to any assembly makes any statement indicating or implying that it would be incumbent or desirable—

(a)to do any acts calculated to bring death or physical injury to any person or to any class or community of persons; or

(b)to do any acts calculated to lead to destruction or damage to any property,

commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term of three years.

(2)A person shall not be prosecuted for an offence under this section without the written consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

(3)For the purpose of this section, “assembly” means a gathering of three or more persons.

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A person who incites violence by printing, publishing, or making a statement to an assembly of three or more people—implying it is necessary or desira...

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