False declara tions and statements. Evidence. Shooting at Customs boats or officers. Resisting officers engaged in preventing smuggling. Resisting Customs officers. verifies it on oath, or under such other sanction, or by solemn declaration or affirmation, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. The offender cannot be arrested without warrant. 174. Any person who, on any occasion on which he is permitted or required by law to make a statement or declaration before any person authorised by law to permit it to be made before him, makes a statement or declaration before that person which, in any material particular, is to his knowledge false, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years. The offender cannot be arrested without warrant. 175. A person cannot be convicted of any of the offences defined in the two last preceding sections upon the uncorroborated testimony of one witness. 176. Any person who— (1.) Shoots at a vessel of any kind which is in use by a Customs Officer while engaged in the execution of his duty as such officer; or (2.) Shoots at, wounds, or causes any grievous harm to a Customs Officer while engaged in the execution of his duty in the prevention of smuggling, or any person acting in aid of a Customs Officer while so engaged; is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. 177. Any person who with violence assaults, obstructs, or resists, a Customs Officer, or any person duly employed for the prevention of smuggling, while engaged in the execution of his duty in the prevention of smuggling, or any person acting in aid of any such officer or person while so engaged, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years. 178. Any person who— (1.) Assaults or obstructs a Customs Officer, or any person duly employed for the prevention of smuggling, while engaged in the execution of his duty under any law relating to the Customs, or in the seizure of any goods claimed to be liable to forfeiture under any such law, or any person acting in aid of any such officer or person while so engaged; or (2.) Rescues or attempts to rescue any goods which have been seized under any such law; or (3.) Before, at, or after, the seizure of any goods under any such law, staves, breaks, or destroys, the goods, with intent to prevent the seizure or the securing of the goods, or attempts to do any such act; is guilty of a simple offence, and is liable to a fine of one hundred pounds. 179. Any person who in any manner obstructs or resists any public Resisting officer while engaged in the discharge or attempted discharge of public officers. the duties of his office under any Order in Council, Proclamation, or Statute, or obstructs or resists any person while engaged in the discharge or attempted discharge of any duty imposed on him by any Order in Council, Proclamation, or Statute, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years, 180. Any person who, being employed in the Public Service, Refusal by or as an officer of any Court or tribunal, perversely and without public officer to perform lawful excuse omits or refuses to do any act which it is his duty duty. to do by virtue of his employment, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years, and to be fined at the discretion of the Court. 181. Any person who, being a peace officer, and having notice Neglect of that there is a riot in his neighbourhood, without reasonable peace officers excuse omits to do his duty in suppressing such riot, is guilty of to suppress a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years. riot. Neglect to 182. Any person who, having reasonable notice that he is required to assist any peace officer in suppressing a riot, without aid in supreasonable excuse omits to do so, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for one year. pressing riot. offenders. 183. Any person who, having reasonable notice that he is Neglect to aid required to assist any peace officer or member of the Police Force in arresting in arresting any person, or in preserving the peace, without reasonable excuse omits to do so, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for one year. in Council, 184. Any person who, without lawful excuse, the proof of Disobedience which lies on him, does any act which he is, by the provisions of to Order any Order in Council, Proclamation, or Statute, forbidden to do, Proclamation or omits to do any act which he is, by the provisions of any such or Statute. Order in Council, Proclamation, or Statute, required to do, is guilty of a misdemeanour, unless some mode of proceeding against him for such disobedience is expressly provided by Order in Council, Proclamation, or Statute, and is intended to be exclusive of all other punishment. The offender is liable to imprisonment for one year. constituted authority. 185. Any person who, without lawful excuse, the proof of Disobedience which lies on him, disobeys any lawful order issued by any to lawful Court, or by any person authorised by any Order in Council, order issued by Proclamation, or Statute, to make the order, is guilty of a misdemeanour, unless some mode of proceeding against him for such disobedience is expressly provided by Order in Council, Proclamation, or Statute, and is intended to be exclusive of all other punishment. The offender is liable to imprisonment for one year. Insult to a religion. Offering violence to officiating ministers of religion. Disturbing religious worship. Unnatural offences. PART IV.-ACTS INJURIOUS GENERAL. TO THE PUBLIC IN CHAPTER XVIII.- Offences relating to Religious Worship. 186. Any person who does an act which any class of persons consider as a public insult on their religion, with the intention that they should consider the act such an insult, and any person who does an unlawful act with the knowledge that any class of persons will consider it such an insult, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years. 187. Any person who (1.) By threats or force prevents or attempts to prevent any minister of religion from lawfully officiating in any place of religious worship, or from performing his duty in the lawful burial of the dead in any cemetery or other burial place; or (2.) By threats or force obstructs or attempts to obstruct any minister of religion while so officiating or performing his duty; or (3.) Assaults, or, upon or under the pretence of executing any civil process, arrests, any minister of religion who is engaged in, or is, to the knowledge of the offender, about to engage in, any of the offices or duties aforesaid, or who is, to the knowledge of the offender, going to perform the same or returning from the performance thereof : is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years. 188. Any person who wilfully and without lawful justification or excuse, the proof of which lies on him, disquiets or disturbs any meeting of persons lawfully assembled for religious worship, or assaults any person lawfully officiating at any such meeting, or any of the persons there assembled, is guilty of a simple offence, and is liable to imprisonment for two months, or to a fine of five pounds. CHAPTER XIX.-Offences against Morality. 189. Any person who (1.) Has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; or (2.) Has carnal knowledge of an animal; or (3.) Permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature; is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. 190. Any person who attempts to commit any of the offences Attempt to defined in the last preceding section is guilty of a felony, and is commit liable to imprisonment for seven years. The offender cannot be arrested without warrant. unnatural offences. treatment of boys under fourteen. 191. Any person who unlawfully and indecently deals with a boy Indecent under the age of fourteen years is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. The term "deal with " includes doing any act which, if done without consent, would constitute an assault as hereinafter defined. between 192. Any male person who, whether in public or private, Indecent commits any act of gross indecency with another male person, practices or procures another male person to commit any act of gross males. indecency with him, or attempts to procure the commission of any such act by any male person with himself or with another male person, whether in public or private, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years. The offender cannot be arrested without warrant. under ten. 193. Any person who has unlawful carnal knowledge of a Defilement girl under the age of ten years is guilty of a felony, and is of girls liable to imprisonment for life, with or without whipping or flogging. Any person who attempts to have unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of ten years is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years, with or without whipping or flogging. A prosecution for either of the offences defined in this section must be begun within two months after the offence is committed. A person cannot be convicted of either of the offences defined in this section upon the uncorroborated testimony of one witness. defilement of young girls on his premises. 194. Any person who, being the owner or occupier of any Householder premises, or having, or acting, or assisting in the management or permitting control of any premises, induces or knowingly permits any girl of such age as is in this section mentioned to resort to or be in or upon such premises for the purpose of being unlawfully carnally known by any man, whether a particular man or not, is guilty of an offence. If the girl is of or above ten and under twelve years of age, he is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years, with or without whipping or flogging. If the girl is under the age of ten years, he is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for life, with or without whipping or flogging. 195. It is a defence to a charge of any of the offences defined Defence to in the last preceding section to prove that the accused person charge under believed, on reasonable grounds, that the girl was of or above the preceding age of twelve years. section. Defilement of girls under twelve and above ten, and of idiots. Indecent treatment of girls under twelve. Procuration. 196. Any person who- (1.) Has or attempts to have unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl being of or above ten years and under twelve years of age; or (2.) Knowing a woman or girl to be an idiot or imbecile, has or attempts to have unlawful carnal knowledge of her; is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years. It is a defence to a charge of either of the offences firstly defined in this section to prove that the accused person believed, on reasonable grounds, that the girl was of or above the age of twelve years. A prosecution for either of the offences firstly defined in this section, must be begun within two months after the offence is committed. A person cannot be convicted of any of the offences defined in this section upon the uncorroborated testimony of one witness. 197. Any person who unlawfully and indecently deals with a girl under the age of twelve years is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years. If the girl is under the age of ten years, he is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years, with or without whipping or flogging. It is a defence to a charge of the offence defined in this section to prove that the accused person believed, on reasonable grounds, that the girl was of or above the age of twelve years. The term "deal with " includes doing any act which, if done without consent, would constitute an assault as hereinafter defined. 198. Any person who- (1.) Procures a girl or woman who is under the age of twenty- (3.) Procures a woman or girl to leave the Protectorate with (4.) Procures a woman or girl to leave her usual place of abode in the Protectorate, such place not being a brothel, with intent that she may, for the purposes of prostitution, become an inmate of a brothel, either in the Protectorate or elsewhere; is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years. |