 These included the Public Order Act 1986, which introduced offences relating to the incitement of racial hatred, and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, which introduced offences of pursuing a racially aggravated course of conduct that amounts to harassment of a person.The 1998 Act also required courts to take into account where offences are racially motivated, when determining sentence.In the twenty-first century the Scottish Parliament legislated against sectarianism.