New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Every person is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding $2,000 who, in or within view of any public place, behaves, or incites or encourages any person to behave, in a riotous, offensive, threatening, insulting, or disorderly manner that is likely in the circumstances to cause violence against persons or property to start or continue.
Compare: 1927 No 35 ss 3D, 34; 1957 No 87 s 213; 1960 No 119 s 2(1); 1967 No 154 s 2(1)
Section 3 was amended, as from 1 January 1998, by section 7 Summary Offences Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 97) by substituting the expression “$2,000”
for the expression “$1,000”
.