PART 1

Protection of the police etc

Offences against emergency workers

Increase in penalty for assault on emergency worker
2
1
In section 1 of the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 (offence of common assault, or battery, committed against emergency worker), in subsection (2)(b) (penalty for conviction on indictment), for “12 months” substitute “2 years”.
2
Subsection (1) applies only in relation to offences committed on or after the day on which this section comes into force.
S. 2 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 208(5)(a)