Emergency Workers (Scotland) Act 2005

3 Assaulting or impeding persons assisting emergency workers S

(1) A person who assaults, obstructs or hinders another in the circumstances described in subsection (2) below commits an offence.

(2) Those circumstances are where the person being assaulted, obstructed or hindered is assisting another while that other person is, in a capacity mentioned in section 1(3) or 2(3) of this Act, responding to emergency circumstances.

(3) No offence is committed under subsection (1) above unless the person who assaults, obstructs or hinders knows or ought to know—

(a) that the person being assisted is acting in that capacity;

(b) that the person being assisted is or might be responding—

(i) to emergency circumstances; or

(ii) as if there were emergency circumstances; and

(c) that the person being assaulted, obstructed or hindered is assisting the person acting in that capacity.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 3 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2013) by The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/602), arts. 1(2), 24

Commencement Information

I1 S. 3 in force at 9.5.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/229, art. 2