Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007 prejudice of any person, it shall be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that he or she did or omitted to do the thing for the purpose of showing favour or disfavour, as the case may be, to that person. (3) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that the crime of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer is not committed by a public officer who does or omits to do anything in the exercise of his or her functions as such for the purpose of favouring any person on the grounds of race or gender, if the act or omission arises from the implementation by the public officer of any Government policy aimed at the advancement of persons who have been historically disadvantaged by discriminatory laws or practices. CHAPTER X CRIMES AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 175 Interpretation in Chapter X In this Chapter⎯ “advantage” means any right, interest, profit, indemnity or advantage of any kind whatsoever which benefits a person, whether lawfully or otherwise, or which the person believes will so benefit him or her; “corporate body of a public character” means a body corporate⎯ (a) established directly by or under any enactment for special purposes specified in that enactment; or (b) wholly owned or controlled by the State that discharges statutory functions, including functions specified by or under a licence or other like authority issued in terms of an enactment; “peace officer” includes— (a) any magistrate or justice of the peace; (b) the Sheriff or any deputy sheriff; (c) any police officer; (d) any prison officer; (e) any immigration officer; (f) any inspector of mines; (g) any— (i) chief, within his or her community; or (ii) headman, chief’s messenger or headman’s messenger, within the community of his or her chief, as defined in the Traditional Leaders Act [Chapter 29:17]; (h) any other person designated by the Minister by notice in a statutory instrument; “public authority” means a peace officer, public official, corporate body of a public character or any agency of the State; “public official” means⎯ - 101 -