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Merchant Shipping Act 1995 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 10 · Legal Proceedings
195. Interfering with person in carrying out duty, etc.
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(a)
by violence, threat or intimidation, hinders or interferes with or otherwise obstructs the master or an officer of a ship in performing his or her duty; or
master
Defined · s 2
“master” includes every person, except a pilot, having command or charge of any ship;
(b)
resists or wilfully obstructs, assaults, molests or otherwise intimidates a person who is carrying out or exercising any duty, function, right or power imposed on him or her by this Act,shall be guilty of an offence.