Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 206

206 Offering violence to officiating ministers of religion

Any person who—

(a) by threats or force prevents or attempts to prevent any minister of religion from lawfully officiating in any place of religious worship, or from performing the minister’s duty in the lawful burial of the dead in any cemetery or other burial place; or

(b) by threats or force obstructs or attempts to obstruct any minister of religion while so officiating or performing the minister’s duty; or

(c) assaults, or, upon or under the pretence of executing any civil process, arrests, any minister of religion who is engaged in, or is, to the knowledge of the offender, about to engage in, any of the offices or duties aforesaid, or who is, to the knowledge of the offender, going to perform the same or returning from the performance thereof;