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The Barn Berkeley Drive, Bamber Bridge PR5 6BY, England

The Riot Act 1714 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which authorized local authorities to declare any group of 12 or more people to be unlawfully assembled and to disperse or face punitive action. The act's long title was An Act for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing the rioters, and it came into force on 1 August 1715. It was repealed in England and Wales by section 10 and Part III of Schedule 3 of the Criminal Law Act 1967. Acts similar to the Riot Act passed into the laws of British colonies in Australia, Canada, and America, some of which remain today. The phrase read the Riot Act has passed into common usage for a stern reprimand or warning of consequences.
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