Section 196 - Definition of riot

(1) Five or more persons together in a public or private place commit the criminal offence of a riot where they commence or attempt

(a) to execute a common purpose with violence, and without lawful authority to use that violence for that purpose; or

(b) to execute a common purpose of obstructing or resisting the execution of a legal process or authority; or

(c) to facilitate, by force or by show of force or of numbers, the commission of a criminal offence.

(2) A person shall not be convicted of a riot only because that person in common with the others to the number of five or more, suddenly engage in an unlawful fight, unless five or more of them fight with a common purpose against any other person.