22 Broadcasting or including programme in cable programme service
Public Order Act 1986 (1986 c 64) | Legislation

22  Broadcasting or including programme in cable programme service

(1)     If a programme involving threatening, abusive or insulting visual images or sounds is [included in a programme service], each of the persons mentioned in subsection (2) is guilty of an offence if—

(a)     he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or

(b)     having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.

(2)     The persons are—

(a)     the person providing the . . . programme service,

(b)     any person by whom the programme is produced or directed, and

(c)     any person by whom offending words

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