Defence Act 1954

Penalty for interference with military duties, etc.

257

257.Any person—

(a) who wilfully obstructs, impedes or otherwise interferes with any officer or man in the execution of his duties, or

(b) who wilfully induces any disease or infirmity in, or maims or injures, any person whom he knows to be a man with a view to enabling such a man to avoid military service, or

(c) who, with the intent of enabling a man to render himself, or induce the belief that he is, permanently or temporarily, unfit for service, supplies to or for such man any drug, preparation or appliance calculated to or likely to render him or lead to the belief that he is permanently or temporarily unfit for service,

shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding F382[1,000] pounds or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Annotations

Amendments:

F382

Substituted (24.06.1987) by Defence (Amendment) Act 1987 (8/1987), s. 2, item 17, commenced on enactment, subject to transitional provision in s. 16. A fine of £1,000 converted (1.01.1999) to 1,269.73. This translates into a class C fine not exceeding €2,500 as provided (1.01.2011) by Fines Act 2010 (8/2010), ss. 3, 6(3) and table ref. no. 3, S.I. No. 662 of 2010.