For the purposes of any criminal law, a public servant shall include, any judicial or legal officer, any law official, any employee or official of the State or of any other body corporate governed by public law, or of a corporation or semi-public corporation, of a law official, any Armed Forces or Gendarmerie serviceman, any employee of the National Security or Prison Administration and any person charged, whether continuously or occasionally with any public duty, mission or task, while acting in the discharge of his office or in relation to the said office.
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