Clause 5

by deleting paragraph (g) and substituting the following paragraph:“(g)every officer of the Government and every officer or employee of a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function whose duty, as such officer or employee, is any of the following:

maintaining law and order;

preserving the public peace;

preventing and detecting offences;

apprehending offenders or otherwise bringing offenders to justice;

executing summonses, subpoenas, warrants, commitments and other legal processes issued by a court or Justice of the Peace;

maintaining order in the premises of the courts of justice;

escorting and guarding prisoners and accused persons in remand;

protecting the public health or safety or prevention of public inconvenience;”; and

by deleting the full-stop at the end of paragraph (i) and substituting a semi‑colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:“(j)every person (other than a person mentioned in paragraph (g)) who is employed to carry out any of the duties, mentioned in paragraph (g)(i) to (vii), on behalf of the Government or a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function, when that person is performing such duties.”.