Codice penale 1974

Codice penale papuano, 1974.

INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Criminal Code 1974 (Consolidated to No 12 of 1993)

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78. Unlawful processions.

(1) Any persons who assemble together, to the number of three or more:
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(b) publicly exhibiting any banner, emblem, flag, or symbol, the displaying of which is calculated to promote animosity between people of different religious faiths; or
(c) being accompanied by any music of a like nature or tendency, and, being so assembled, join in any parade or procession for the purpose of:
(d) celebrating or commemorating any festival, anniversary or political event relating to or connected with any religious or political distinction or difference between any classes of people; or
(e) demonstrating any such religious or political distinction or difference,
are each guilty of an offence.

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PART IV. — ACTS INJURIOUS TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL.

Division 1. — Offences Relating to Religious Worship.

207. Offering violence to officiating ministers of religion.

A person who:
(a) by threats or force:
(i) prevents or attempts to prevent any minister of religion from:
(A) lawfully officiating in any place of religious worship; or
(B) performing his duty in the lawful burial of the dead in any cemetery or other burial place; or
(ii) obstructs or attempts to obstruct any minister of religion while so officiating or performing that duty; or
(b) assaults, or, on the pretence of executing any civil process, arrests any minister of religion who:
(i) is engaged in; or
(ii) is, to the knowledge of the offender, about to engage in,
any of the offices or duties referred to in Paragraph (a), or who is, to the knowledge of the offender:
(iii) going to perform them; or
(iv) returning from performing them,
is guilty of a misdemeanour.
Penalty: Imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

208. Disturbing religious worship.

A person who wilfully and without lawful justification or excuse (proof of which is on him):
(a) disquiets or disturbs any meeting of persons lawfully assembled for religious worship; or
(b) assaults:
(i) any person lawfully officiating at any such meeting; or
(ii) any of the persons assembled, at any such meeting, is guilty of an offence.

Penalty: A fine not exceeding K 50.00, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months.

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