Sch 1 (The Criminal Code), s 78
In forceInterfering with political liberty
Schedule 1The Criminal Code
Part 2Offences against public order
78 Interfering with political liberty
(1)
Any person who by violence, or by threats or intimidation of any kind, hinders or interferes with the free exercise of any political right by another person, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for 2 years.
(2)
If the offender is a public officer, and commits the offence in abuse of the offender’s authority as such officer, the offender is liable to imprisonment for 3 years. sch 1 pt 2 ch 10 s 78 amd 1988 No. 88 s 5 sch 2
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