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(4)
neglects the duty to provide assistance, as referred to in Chapter 4, section 3 of the Police Act, or
(5) alerts the police without reason or, by providing false information, hinders police operations,
shall, unless a more severe penalty has been provided elsewhere in law for the
act, be sentenced for contumacy to the police to a fine or to imprisonment for at
most three months.
Section 4(a) – Contumacy to a frontier guard (585/2005)
A person who
(1) fails to obey an order or prohibition issued by a frontier guard, within
his or her competence, for the performance of a duty,
(2) refuses to provide a frontier guard with the identifying information referred to in section 36(1) of the Frontier Guard Act (578/2005),
(3) fails to obey a frontier guard’s clearly visible signal or order for directing
traffic or for stopping or moving a vehicle, as referred to in section 38 of
the Frontier Guard Act,
(4) fails to obey a prohibition or order issued by a sea search and rescue
mission coordinator pursuant to section 11(a) of the Sea Search and
Rescue Act (1145/2001), or
(5) alerts a frontier guard without reason or, by providing false information,
hinders the activity of a frontier guard,
shall, unless a more severe penalty has been provided elsewhere in law for the
act, be sentenced for contumacy to a frontier guard to a fine or to imprisonment
for at most three months.
Section 4(b) – Contumacy to a customs official (632/2015)
A person who
(1) fails to obey an order or prohibition issued by a customs official, within
his or her competence, for the performance of a duty,
(2) refuses to provide a customs official guard with information requested in
accordance with section 14, subsection 1(6) of the Customs Act
(1466/1994) or Chapter 2, section 14 or 15 of the Act on the Customs
Investigation Office (623/2015),
(3) alerts a customs official without reason or, by providing false information, hinders the activity of the National Board of Customs,
shall, unless a more severe penalty has been provided elsewhere in law for the
act, be sentenced for contumacy to a customs official to a fine or to imprisonment
for at most three months.
Section 5 – Giving false identifying information (563/1998)