Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (FOREIGN INCURSIONS AND RECRUITMENT) ACT 1978 - SECT 7

             (1)  A person shall not, whether within or outside Australia:

                     (a)  do any act preparatory to the commission of an offence against section 6, whether by that person or by another person;

                     (b)  accumulate, stockpile or otherwise keep arms, explosives, munitions, poisons or weapons with the intention of committing an offence against section 6, whether by that person or by another person;

                     (c)  train or drill or participate in training or drilling, or be present at a meeting or assembly of persons with intent to train or drill or to participate in training or drilling, any other person in the use of arms or explosives, or the practice of military exercises, movements or evolutions, with the intention of preparing that other person to commit an offence against section 6;

                     (d)  allow himself or herself to be trained or drilled, or be present at a meeting or assembly of persons with intent to allow himself or herself to be trained or drilled, in the use of arms or explosives, or the practice of military exercises, movements or evolutions, with the intention of committing an offence against section 6;

                     (e)  give money or goods to, or perform services for, any other person or any body or association of persons with the intention of supporting or promoting the commission of an offence against section 6;

                      (f)  receive or solicit money or goods, or the performance of services, with the intention of supporting or promoting the commission of an offence against section 6;

                     (g)  being the owner, lessee, occupier, agent or superintendent of any building, room, premises or place, intentionally permit a meeting or assembly of persons to be held in the building, room, premises or place with the intention of committing, or supporting or promoting the commission of, an offence against paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f); or

                     (h)  being the owner, charterer, lessee, operator, agent or master of a vessel or the owner, charterer, lessee, operator or pilot in charge of an aircraft, intentionally permit the vessel or aircraft to be used with the intention of committing, or supporting or promoting the commission of, an offence against paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f).

          (1A)  A reference in subsection (1) to the commission of an offence against section 6 is a reference to the doing of an act that would constitute, or would but for subsection 6(2) constitute, an offence against section 6.

          (1B)  A person shall not be taken to have committed an offence against this section merely because of doing an act by way of, or for the purposes of, the provision of aid of a humanitarian nature.

             (2)  A person shall not be taken to have committed an offence against this section in respect of the doing of an act outside Australia unless:

                     (a)  at the time of the doing of that act, the person:

                              (i)  was an Australian citizen; or

                             (ii)  not being an Australian citizen, was ordinarily resident in Australia; or

                     (b)  the person was present in Australia at any time before the doing of that act and, at any time when the person was so present, his or her presence was for a purpose connected with that act, or for purposes that included such a purpose.

Penalty:  Imprisonment for 10 years.