(1) Any person who—
(a) obstructs, hinders, molests or assaults any officer engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power, imposed or conferred on him or her by any customs enactment, or any person acting in his or her aid;
(b) does anything which impedes or is calculated to impede the carrying out of any search for anything which is liable to forfeiture or the detention, seizure or removal of any such thing;
(c) rescues, damages or destroys anything which is liable to forfeiture or does anything calculated to prevent the procuring or giving of evidence as to whether or not anything is liable to forfeiture;
(d) prevents the arrest of any person under any customs enactment or rescues any person so arrested; or
(e) attempts to do any such act, specified in subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d) or aids and abets any person doing such an act,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000, or to imprisonment for 2 years, or to both.
(2) Any person who fires upon, maims or wounds any officer in the performance of his or her duty commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 or to imprisonment for 10 years or to both.
(3) If any person uses abusive, offensive or threatening language to any officer engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him or her by any customs enactment, he or she commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.