Part 5 s 84 84 Crimes Act 1961 Version as at 6 November 2021 Publication of seditious documents [Repealed] Section 84: repealed, on 1 January 2008, by section 5 of the Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 96). 85 Use of apparatus for making seditious documents or statements [Repealed] Section 85: repealed, on 1 January 2008, by section 5 of the Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 96). Unlawful assemblies, riots, and breaches of the peace 86 Unlawful assembly (1) An unlawful assembly is an assembly of 3 or more persons who, with intent to carry out any common purpose, assemble in such a manner, or so conduct themselves when assembled, as to cause persons in the neighbourhood of the assembly to fear, on reasonable grounds, that the persons so assembled— (a) will use violence against persons or property in that neighbourhood or elsewhere; or (b) will, by that assembly, needlessly and without reasonable cause provoke other persons to use violence against persons or property in that neigh‐ bourhood: provided that no one shall be deemed to provoke other persons need‐ lessly and without reasonable cause by doing or saying anything that he or she is lawfully entitled to do or say. (2) Persons lawfully assembled may become an unlawful assembly if, with a com‐ mon purpose, they conduct themselves in such a manner that their assembling would have been unlawful if they had assembled in that manner for that pur‐ pose. (3) An assembly of 3 or more persons for the purpose of protecting the house of any one of their number against persons threatening to break and enter that house in order to commit an offence therein is not unlawful. (4) Every member of an unlawful assembly is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 1 year. Compare: 1908 No 32 s 101 Section 86(1): replaced, on 1 January 1974, by section 3 of the Crimes Amendment Act 1973 (1973 No 118). Section 86(3): amended, on 1 July 2013, by section 7 of the Crimes Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 27). 64