Slovakia

Criminal Code

PART TWO
SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER EIGHT
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

Title Five
Other Forms of Interfering with the Activities by Public Authorities

Obstructing the Execution of an Official Decision
Section 348

(1) Any person who obstructs or substantially impedes the execution of a decision taken by a court or other public authority, by

a) failing to commence serving a sentence of imprisonment on the date specified by the court without a serious reason,
b) residing, without permission and without a serious reason, in a locality or district from which he has been banned under a prohibition of residence sentence, or by failing to comply with restrictions and obligations imposed on him by the court in connection with the execution of such sentence,
c) residing, without permission and without a serious reason, on the territory of the Slovak Republic despite having been imposed the sentence of expulsion from, or sentence of prohibition of residence on, the territory of the Slovak Republic,
d) carrying out the activities prohibited under the prohibition to undertake certain activities decision issued by a court or other State authority,
e) committing serious misconduct with the aim to frustrate the purpose of protective medical treatment or protective re-education imposed on him by a court or otherwise, in particular by escaping from an institution, or by substantially impeding the execution of such decisions, or
f) committing serious misconduct with the aim to prevent the purpose of remand in custody or sentence, or
g) committing serious or repeated misconduct with the aim to breach an order restraining him from entering shared household issued under separate regulation or on the basis of a preliminary measure taken by a court, or
h) committing serious misconduct whereby he frustrates an execution of imposed protective supervision,
shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of up to two years.

(2) Any person who, in the course of criminal proceedings, frustrates or substantially impedes the execution of a decision made by a court or other public authority by

a) destroying, damaging, rendering unusable, concealing, stealing or removing a thing affected by such decision, or
b) escaping the guards, escaping from the execution of custody or of an imprisonment sentence, or by helping in the escape of another,
shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of one to five years.

Keywords

Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court



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