Skip to content
Back to the text

Penal Code · s 152

Suggest a correction

Tell us what is wrong in this text. We check every suggestion against the official version before we change anything.

What is wrong?

The text as we hold it

Open the official text

s 152Whoever -

(a)

assaults or threatens to assault, or obstructs or attempts to obstruct, any public servant in the discharge of his duty as such public servant in endeavouring to disperse an unlawful assembly, or to suppress a riot or affray; or

(b)

uses, or threatens or attempts to use, criminal force to such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, fine or both.

Penul Code

CAP. 22 73