(1) Subject to subsection (2), where a person—
(a) uses towards another person threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour; or
(b) distributes or displays to another person any writing, signs or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting with intent—
(i) to cause that person to believe that unlawful violence will be used against him or her or another by the person,
(ii) to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another, or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked,
commits an offence.
(2) A person commits an offence under subsection (1) if he or she intends by his or her words or behaviour or the writing, sign or visible representation, to be threatening, abusive or insulting, or is aware that it may be threatening, abusive or insulting.
(3) An offence under this section may be in a private or public place except that no offence is committed where the words or behaviour are used, or the writing, sign or other visible representation is distributed or displayed by a person inside a dwelling and the other person is also inside that or another dwelling.
(4) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for 5 years.