Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CRIMES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1991 No. 28 of 1991 - SECT 29

29. Section 76 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Obstructing etc. public officers

"76. (1) A person must not intentionally and knowingly obstruct, resist,
hinder, use violence against, threaten or intimidate:

   (a)  a Commonwealth officer who is carrying out, or attempting to carry
        out, a function or duty of such an officer; or

   (b)  a person who is exercising a power, or carrying out a function or
        duty:

   (i)  under a law of the Commonwealth; or

   (ii) on behalf of the Commonwealth or a public authority under the
        Commonwealth; or who is attempting to exercise such a power or carry
        out such a function or duty.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

"(2) This section does not limit the power of a court to punish a contempt of
the court.".