Section 237 - Falsely pretending to be public officer or juror

A person who pretends to be or acts as a public officer, juror, or to be a messenger of or to hold an authority from the President, or a Minister or a Court, and who is not lawfully authorised to act in that capacity, or not holding that authority, and in or under colour of the assumed character does or attempts to do, or procures or attempts to procure, any other person to do or abstain from doing an act commits a misdemeanour, unless that person shows

(a) that the pretence or the act was under a mistake of law or of fact; or

(b) in the case of a person acting as a public officer, that the pretence or the act was in good faith for the public benefit.