Section 198: Refusal by public officer to perform duty

Any person who, being a person employed in the public service and being required by
any order, Act, law, or statute, to do any act by virtue of his employment, perversely
and without lawful excuse omits or refuses to do any such act, is guilty of a
misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for two years. A prosecution for any
offence under this section of this Code shall not be instituted except by or with the
consent of a law officer.
[L.N. 112 of 1964.]