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In the UK, act of Parliament passed 1714 to
suppress the Jacobite disorders. If three or
more persons assembled unlawfully to the
disturbance of the public peace, a magistrate
could read a proclamation ordering them to
disperse (`reading the Riot Act'); after
which they might be dispersed by force. It
was superseded by the 1986 Public Order Act.