Chapter:	212	Title:	OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	35	Heading:	Assault magistrate, etc., on account of his preserving wreck	Version Date:	30/06/1997

Any person who assaults and strikes or wounds any magistrate, officer, or other person whomsoever lawfully authorized, in or on account of the exercise of his duty in or concerning the preservation of any vessel in distress, or of any vessel, goods, or effects wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, or lying under water, shall be guilty of an offence triable upon indictment, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 7 years.

(Amended 30 of 1911 ss. 2 & 5; 50 of 1911 s. 4; 21 of 1912 s. 2; 50 of 1991 s. 4; 47 of 1997 s. 10)