Chapter 23

ASSAULTS.

235. Common assault.

Any person who unlawfully assaults another commits a misdemeanour, and, if the assault is not committed in circumstances for which a greater punishment is provided in this Code, is liable to imprisonment for one year.

236. Assaults causing actual bodily harm.

Any person who commits an assault occasioning actual bodily harm commits a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for five years.

237. Assaults on persons protecting wreck.

Any person who assaults and strikes or wounds any magistrate, officer or other person lawfully authorised in or on account of the execution of his or her duty in or concerning the preservation of any vessel in distress, or of any vessel or goods or effects wrecked, stranded or cast on shore, or lying under water, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

238. Assaults punishable with two years’ imprisonment.

Any person who— (a) assaults any person with intent to commit a felony or to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of himself or herself or of any other person for any offence;

(b) assaults, resists or wilfully obstructs any police officer in the due execution of his or her duty, or any person acting in aid of such officer;

(c) assaults any person in pursuance of any unlawful combination or conspiracy to raise the rate of wages, or respecting any trade, business, or manufacture or respecting any person concerned or employed therein;

(d) assaults, resists or obstructs any person engaged in the lawful execution of process, or in making a lawful distress, with intent to rescue any property lawfully taken under such process or distress; or

(e) assaults any person on account of any act done by him or her in the execution of any duty imposed on him or her by law, commits a misdemeanour