Penalty for assaulting, resisting or obstructing Health Officer

If any person assaults, resists, obstructs, intimidates or bribes, or at-tempts to assault, resist, obstruct, intimidate or bribe, any health officer or other officer or person duly acting or employed in the execution of this Act, or obstructs the carrying out of an order made by a justice of the peace under this Act, or destroys or pulls down any board or paper upon which, without trespass, any regulation, by-law, notice or other matter is printed or inscribed and set up by the authority of a health officer or of any Town Council, or offends against this Act, or any regulation, order or direction made thereunder for the breach of which no penalty is specifically imposed, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, and if the offence is a continuing one to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars a day so long as the offence continues. In addition the Minister shall have the power to direct the closure of any entity which is in the opinion of the Minister responsible for the pollution or contamination of the environment and that entity shall be closed down.