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Reserves Act 1977

Miscellaneous provisions - Offences

98: Offences with respect to officers or rangers

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"Rules about being kind and honest with park rangers and government workers"

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If you pretend to be a ranger or an employee of the government when you are not, you are committing an offence. You also commit an offence if you are violent or threatening to a ranger or government employee who is doing their job. This includes using abusive language or behaving in a way that is scary or intimidating.

If you try to bribe a ranger or government employee by offering them a gift or something in return for doing something for you, you are committing an offence. This is also true if you are a ranger or government employee and you accept a bribe or ask for one. You must not try to influence a ranger or government employee's decisions by offering them something in return for a favour.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Offences

98Offences with respect to officers or rangers

  1. Every person commits an offence against this Act who—

  2. personates or falsely pretends to be a ranger or an employee of the Crown or of any administering body; or
    1. offers violence to, or assaults, obstructs, or threatens, or attempts to intimidate, or uses abusive or threatening language or behaves in a threatening manner to, any ranger or employee of the Crown or of any administering body while that ranger or employee is acting in the exercise of his or her powers or the discharge of his or her duties under this Act; or
      1. gives, or agrees to give, or offers to any such ranger or employee of the Crown or of any administering body any gift or consideration as an inducement or reward for any act done or to be done or any forbearance observed or to be observed, or any favour shown or to be shown by that ranger or employee, or who, being a ranger or employee of the Crown or a member, ranger, or employee of any administering body, accepts or agrees to accept or solicits any such gift or consideration as aforesaid.

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        • 1953 No 69 s 86