OBSTRUCTING OR VIOLENCE
TO
OR ARREST OF OFFICIATING CLERGYMAN
Disturbing religious worship or certain meetings
Idem.
176.
(1) Every one who
(a) by threats or force, unlawfully obstructs or
prevents or endeavours to obstruct
or prevent a
clergyman or minister from celebrating divine service
or performing any other function in connection with
his
calling, or
(b) knowing that a clergyman or minister is about
to perform, is on his way to perform or is returning
from
the performance of any of the duties or functions
mentioned in paragraph (a)
(i) assaults or offers any violence
to him, or
(ii) arrests him on a civil process, or under
the pretence of executing a civil process,
is guilty
of an indictable offence and liable to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
(2) Every one who wilfully
disturbs or interrupts an
assemblage of persons met for religious worship or for
a moral, social or benevolent purpose
is guilty of an
offence punishable on summary conviction.
(3) Every one who, at or near a meeting referred to in
subsection
(2), wilfully does anything that disturbs
the order or solemnity of the meeting is guilty of an
offence punishable on
summary conviction.
[R.S., c.C-34, s.172.]
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