Article 184 Dutch Criminal Code

Paragraph 1

Any person who intentionally fails to comply with an order or demand made pursuant to a statutory provision by a public servant charged with the exercise of any supervisory task or by a public servant charged with or authorised to investigate or examine criminal offences, as well as any person who intentionally prevents, obstructs or frustrates any act undertaken by one of those public servants in the implementation of any statutory provision, is liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months or a fine of the second category.

Paragraph 2

Any person who, pursuant to a statutory provision, is permanently or temporarily charged with any public service is equated with the public servant referred to in the first part of the preceding paragraph.

Paragraph 3

A demand or act of the master (of a vessel) or the commander of an aircraft who exercises a power or performs a duty conferred or imposed on him as such by a provision of the Code of Criminal Procedure is equated with a demand or act as referred to in paragraph 1. The term master includes the person exercising the highest authority on an installation designated in accordance with Article 136a(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Paragraph 4

If, at the time the serious offence (misdrijf) is committed, less than two years have elapsed since an earlier conviction of the offender for a similar serious offence became final, the term of imprisonment may be increased by one third.