9. Obstructing of Officers
(1) Any person who wilfully obstructs any officer, servant or agent of the Association in the execution of his duty upon any land vested in the Association or of which the control and management is vested in the Association or upon any building or premises connected therewith shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars.
(2) Any person who wilfully trespasses upon any land vested in the Association or of which the control and management is vested in the Association or upon any building or premises connected therewith or who removes or wilfully injures any building, enclosure, post, tree or shrub upon any such land shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars.
(3) Any member of the committee, officer or servant of the Association and any person called by him to his assistance may seize and detain any person who shall have committed any offence against the provisions of this Act and whose name and residence shall not be given to such member of the committee, officer or servant upon his requiring the same to be given and give such offender in charge to a police constable.
Such constable shall convey the offender with all convenient despatch before the nearest Court of Petty Sessions without any other authority than this Act and such Court shall proceed with all convenient despatch to the hearing of the complaint against the offender.
Notwithstanding the liability of any person to any penalty under the provisions of this Act he shall not be relieved from any other liability to which he would have been subject if this Act had not been passed.
[Section 9 amended by No. 113 of 1965 s.8; No. 35 of 2003 s. 228.]