Riot Act

The riot act is an 1714 statute enacted by the UK law requiring open-air meetings may be declared unlawful within an hour and everyone who will not leave the meeting, may be punished with death. In Britain, the law was repealed in 1973, it is in the former colonies in part, in slightly modified form, today.

Recently it has been applied in the riots in Belize in 2005 on 21 January.

  • Historic legal source ( United Kingdom)
  • Legal source of modern times
Riot Act (Album) 2005 Belize unrest
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