Section 82: Conspiracy by public officers to flout the law
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82. Conspiracy by public officers to flout the law
(1) Tout concert de mesures (1) Any combination of measures
contraires aux lois, de mesures contrary to law, or of measures
contre l’exécution des lois ou contre against the execution of the law or
les ordres du Gouvernement, prati- against the orders of the Governqué soit par la réunion d’individus ou ment, entered into, whether by an
de corps dépositaires de quelque association of individuals or of bodies
partie de l’autorité publique, soit par entrusted with any portion of the
députation ou correspondance entre public authority, or by any deputaeux, sera puni de l’emprisonnement. tion or correspondence among them,
shall be punished by imprisonment.
(2) Dans le cas où ce concert au- (2) Where such combination has
rait eu pour objet ou résultat un com- had as its object or result a plot afplot attentatoire à la sûreté intérieure fecting the internal safety of the
de l’Etat, les auteurs seront considé- State, the authors shall commit the
rés comme coupables du crime de offence of high treason, and shall be
haute trahison, et punis conformé- punished in conformity with secment aux sections 50, 51 et 57 à 61. tions 50, 51 and 57 to 61.
[S. 82 amended by Act 42 of 1993; Act 31 of 1995.]
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