ACT No. IV of 2025 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code, Cap. 9.

I assent.

MYRIAM SPITERI DEBONO

President

18th February, 2025

ACT No. IV of 2025

AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code, Cap. 9.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

The short title of this Act is the Criminal Code (Amendment)

Act, 2025 and this Act shall be read and construed as one with the

Criminal Code, hereinafter referred to as the "Code".

Article 95 of the Code shall be substituted by the following new

95. Whosoever, in any other case not referred to in

the last preceding two articles, reviles, or threatens, or

causes a bodily harm to any person lawfully charged

with a public duty, including a public officer and a

public employee as defined in article 2 of the Public

Administration Act, while in the act of discharging his

duty or because of his having discharged such duty, or

with intent to intimidate or unduly influence him in the

discharge of such duty, shall on conviction be liable to

the punishment established for the vilification, threats,

or bodily harm, when not accompanied with the

circumstances mentioned in this article, increased by

two degrees and to a fine (multa) of not less than one

thousand and two hundred euro (€1,200) and not more

than seven thousand and five hundred euro (€7,500).".

Article 96 of the Code shall be substituted by the following new Substitution of

article 96 of the

Code.

96. Whosoever assaults or resists by violence or

active force not amounting to public violence, any person

lawfully charged with a public duty, including a public

officer and a public employee as defined in article 2 of

the Public Administration Act, when in the execution of

the law or of a lawful order issued by a competent

authority, shall on conviction be liable

(a) where the assault or resistance is

committed by one (1) or two (2) persons, to

imprisonment for a term from one (1) year to four

(4) years and to a fine (multa) of not less than six

thousand euro (€6,000) and not more than fifteen

thousand euro (€15,000);

(b) where the assault or resistance is

committed by three (3) or more persons, to

imprisonment for a term from eighteen (18)

months to six (6) years and to a fine (multa) of not

less than seven thousand and five hundred euro

(€7,500) and not more than twenty-two thousand

and five hundred euro (€22,500).".

In article 97 of the Code the words "be liable to imprisonment Amendment of

for a term from one year to four years and to a fine (multa) of not less article

Code.

than eight thousand euro (€8,000) and not more than twenty thousand

euro (€20,000)." shall be substituted by the words "be liable to

imprisonment for a term from eighteen months to six years and to a

fine (multa) of not less than twelve thousand euro (€12,000) and not

more than thirty thousand euro (€30,000).".

Article 98 of the Code shall be substituted by the following Substitution of

article 98 of the

Code.

"98. Where any of the crimes referred to in article 96 is

accompanied by public violence, the punishment shall be

imprisonment for a term from three years to seven years and to a

fine (multa) of not less than ten thousand euro (€10,000) and not

more than twenty-five thousand euro (€25,000).".

Immediately after article 98 of the Code there shall be added

Addition of new

article to the

the following new article

98A. The provisions of articles 28A, 28B, 28C, 28D,

"Non-applicability

of articles 28A,

28E, 28F, 28G, 28H, 28I of this Code and article 22 of

28B, 28C, 28D,

28E, 28F, 28G,

28H, 28I and article the Probation Act shall not apply to articles 96, 97 and

22 of the Probation 98 of this Code.".

Act.

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 310 of the

12th February, 2025.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

ELEANOR SCERRI

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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