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Confiscation of Criminal Assets Act 2003
233Obstruction etc of police officers and people assisting
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233 Obstruction etc of police officers and people assisting
(a) the person knows that, or is reckless about the fact that, a person
is a police officer; and
(b) the person obstructs, hinders, intimidates or resists the officer in
the exercise of the officer’s functions under this part.
(2) For this section, it is immaterial whether the defendant was aware that
the police officer was exercising the officer’s functions.
(3) Strict liability applies to subsection (1) (b).