Public Order (Amendment) Act 1996

Year1996
ELIZABETH II c. 59
Public Order (Amendment) Act
1996
1996 CHAPTER 59
An Act to amend the power of arrest of section 5 of the Public
Order Act 1986. [17th October 1996]
BEIT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:—
1. Section 5(4)(a) of the Public Order Act 1986 shall be amended by Power of arrest.
leaving out the word "the" and inserting the word "a". 1986 c.64.
2. This Act may be cited as the Public Order (Amendment) Act 1996. Citation.
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