: Maximum
penalty-- Imprisonment for 12 months or a fine of 20 penalty units or both.
(1) A person who assaults, throws a missile at, stalks, harasses or
intimidates a law enforcement officer (other than a police officer) while in
the execution of the officer's duty, although no actual bodily harm is
occasioned to the officer, is liable to imprisonment for 5 years.
(2) A person who assaults a
law enforcement officer (other than a police officer) while in the execution
of the officer's duty, and by the assault occasions actual bodily harm, is
liable to imprisonment for 7 years.
(b) is reckless as to
causing actual bodily harm to the officer or another person.
: Maximum
penalty--Imprisonment for 14 years.
(4) For the purposes of this section, an
action is taken to be carried out in relation to a law enforcement officer
while in the execution of the officer's duty, even though the officer is not
on duty at the time, if it is carried out--
(a) as a consequence of, or in
retaliation for, actions undertaken by that officer in the execution of the
officer's duty, or