Staff Refusal to Leave a Property

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Under the Crimes Decree 2009 (“the Act”), such conduct may constitute Criminal Trespass.

Accordingly, Section 387 (1) of the Act reads;

A person commits a summary offence if he or she-

(a) enters into or upon property in the possession of another with intent to commit an offence or to intimidate or annoy any person lawfully in possession of such property:

(b) having lawfully entered into or upon such property unlawfully remains there with intent to intimidate, insult or annoy any such person or with intent to commit any offence; or

(c) unlawfully persists in coming or remaining upon such property after being warned not to come thereon or to depart from the property.

Penalty

Imprisonment for 3 months, but if the property upon which the offence is committed is any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling, or any building used as a place of worship, or as a place for the custody of property, the offender is liable to imprisonment for 1 year.