Any person who-
| a) | resists, hinders or obstructs a correctional or custody official in the performance of his or her duties; |
| b) | in order to compel a correctional or custody official to do or not to do any act in the performance of his or her duties, or threatens or suggests the use of violence against, or restraint upon such person or any of his or her relatives or dependants, or threatens to damage the property of any such person or of the Department or the Contractor; |
| c) | assists, conspires with, induces any correctional or custody official not to perform his or her duties or to do any act contrary to it; |
| d) | participates, assists in or incites the commission of any act whereby any lawful order given to a correctional or custody official may be evaded; or |
| e) | incites or induces an inmate to contravene a lawful rule, order, a regulation or a provision of this Act, |
is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or, in default of payment, to incarceration for a period not exceeding six years or to such incarceration without the option of a fine or both.
