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Criminal Code Act 1983
71Interfering with political liberty
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71 Interfering with political liberty
(1) Any person who by violence, or by threats or intimidation of any
kind, hinders or interferes with the free exercise of any political right
by another person is guilty of an offence and is liable to
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(2) If the offender is a public officer and commits the offence in abuse
of his authority as such an officer he is liable to imprisonment for