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CRIMINAL CODE 1924 - SECT 100

   Interfering with witnesses
Any person who –
(a) with intent to pervert or obstruct the due course of justice, wilfully prevents, obstructs or dissuades another person from attending as a witness at a judicial proceeding, or from giving any evidence or producing anything to be used as evidence at a judicial proceeding; or
(b) uses, causes, inflicts, procures or threatens any violence, punishment, damage, loss or disadvantage to another person for or on account of –
(i) that other person having given evidence at a judicial proceeding or produced or surrendered any document or thing at a judicial proceeding; or
(ii) any evidence given by that other person at a judicial proceeding or any document or thing produced or surrendered by that other person at a judicial proceeding –
is guilty of a crime.
Charge:  Interfering with a witness.



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