Act 9
Penal Code Act
86. Disrupting a Public Gathering.
2008
Whoever, at a public gathering—
(a) engages in disorderly or riotous conduct; or
(b) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or
behaves in a threatening, abusive or insulting manner;
intending to prevent the transaction of the business for which the
gathering was called together, or realising that there is a real risk
or possibility that the transaction of business may be prevented,
commits an offence, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or with a fine
or with both.
CHAPTER VIII
OFFENCES BY OR RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVANTS
87. Public Servants taking Gratification in Respect of an Official
Act.
Whoever being or expecting to be a public servant, accepts or
obtains or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain from any person
for himself, herself or for any other person, any gratification
whatever, whether pecuniary or otherwise, other than legal
remuneration, as a motive or reward—
(a) for doing or forbearing to do any official act;
(b) for showing or forbearing to show in the exercise of
his or her official functions favour or disfavour to any
person; or
(c) for rendering or attempting to render any service or
disservice to any person with any department of the
Government State or with any public servant as such,
commits an offence, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or with a fine
or with both.
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