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POLICE OFFENCES ACT 1935 - SECT 20
Misbehaviour at public meetings
(1) A person in or near any hall, room, or building in which a public
meeting is being held shall not
(a) behave in a riotous, disorderly, indecent, offensive, threatening, or
insulting manner; or
(b) use any threatening, abusive, or insulting words.
(1A) A person who contravenes a provision of subsection (1) is guilty of
an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding 3
penalty units or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months.
(2) Where in the opinion of the chairman presiding at any public meeting
any person in or near the hall, room, or building in which such meeting is
being held commits an offence against this section, such chairman may verbally
direct any police officer who is present to remove such person from the said
hall, room, or building, or the neighbourhood thereof; and such police officer
shall remove such person accordingly.
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