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WITNESSES (PUBLIC INQUIRIES) PROTECTION ACT 1892 - SECT 2

Persons obstructing or intimidating witnesses guilty of misdemeanour.

2. Every person who commits any of the following acts, that is to say, who
threatens, or in any way punishes, damnifies, or injures, or attempts to
punish, damnify, or injure, any person for having given evidence upon any
inquiry, or on account of the evidence which he has given upon any such
inquiry shall, unless such evidence was given in bad faith, be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and be liable on conviction thereof to a maximum penalty of one
hundred pounds, or to a maximum imprisonment of three months.


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