Section 56 — Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)

Whosoever—
by threats or force prevents, or endeavours to prevent, any member of the clergy, or other person duly authorised in that behalf, from officiating in a place of divine worship, or from the performance of his or her duty in the lawful burial of the dead in a burial-place, or
strikes, or offers any violence to, any member of the clergy, or minister engaged in, or to the knowledge of the offender about to engage in, any of the duties aforesaid, or going to perform the same,
shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

Related sections

• s 54I — Coercive Control Implementation and Evaluation Taskforce
• s 54J — Review of Division
• s 55 — Possessing or making explosives or other things with intent to injure
• s 57 — Assault on persons preserving wreck
• s 58 — Assault with intent to commit a serious indictable offence
• s 59 — Assault occasioning actual bodily harm

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