[Rev. 2012]
Penal Code
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abstaining from buying or selling any goods or class of goods;
or
abstaining from entering or approaching or dealing at any
premises at which any person or class of persons carries on
trade or business; or
abstaining from dealing with any person or class of persons in
the course of his trade or business; or abstaining from using or
providing any service or class of service; or
abstaining from working for or employing any person or class
of persons; or
abstaining from letting, hiring or allowing the use of any land or
buildings to any person or class of persons; or
abstaining from doing any other act which may lawfully be done.
(2) Any person who, with intent to further any designated boycott—
(a) by word of mouth publicly; or
(b) by making a publication (as defined in subsection (7)),
advises, induces or persuades or attempts to advise, induce or persuade any
person or class of persons to take any action which has been specified in relation
to that boycott is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding six months.
(3) For the purposes of this section, in determining whether any words were
spoken or any publication was made with intent to further a designated boycott,
every person shall, unless the contrary be proved, be deemed to intend the
consequences which would naturally follow from his conduct at the time and in the
circumstances in which he so conducted himself.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to make unlawful any action
lawfully taken by a party to a trade dispute (as defined in the Trade Unions Act
(Cap. 233)) in contemplation or in furtherance of that dispute.
(5) Deleted by Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 11.
(6) Any notice published under this section may at any time be amended,
varied, suspended or revoked by a further notice so published.
(7) For the purposes of this section a person shall be deemed to make a
publication if he prints it, makes it, publishes it, sells it, distributes it, offers it for
sale or distribution or reproduces it.
[Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 21, L.N. 427/1963, Act No. 24
of 1967, Sch., L.N. 280 /1967, Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 11.]
DIVISION II – OFFENCES AGAINST THE
ADMINISTRATION OF LAWFUL AUTHORITY
CHAPTER X – ABUSE OF OFFICE
99. Officers charged with administration of property of a special character
or with special duties
Any person who, being employed in the public service, and being charged by
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