(a)to overawe by criminal force, or show of criminal force, the Legislative or Executive Government, or any public servant in the exercise of the lawful power of such public servant;
Section history
Section 141 — Unlawful assembly
As in force on 12 November 1993.
Timeline 4 versions
- 30 March 1987 Enacted
- 12 November 1993 You are here
- 1 February 2008 Act 51 of 2007
- 30 November 2008 Revised edition
- 17 August 2026 Latest
An assembly of 5 or more persons is designated an “unlawful assembly”, if the common object of the persons composing that assembly is —
(b)to resist the execution of any law, or of any legal process;
(c)to commit any mischief or criminal trespass, or other offence;
(d)by means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to any person, to take or obtain possession of any property, or to deprive any person of the enjoyment of a right of way, or of the use of water or other incorporeal right of which he is in possession or enjoyment, or to enforce any right or supposed right; or
(e)by means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to compel any person to do what he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do what he is legally entitled to do.
Explanation.—An assembly which was not unlawful when it assembled may subsequently become an unlawful assembly.