PUBLIC ORDER (PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY) ACT 1971

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

PART I--PRELIMINARY

• 1 Short title  
• 2 Commencement  
• 4 Interpretation  
• 5 When assembly is in relation to protected premises or a protected person  
• 5A Application of the Criminal Code  

PART II--PROVISIONS--APPLYING INCOMMONWEALTHTERRITORIESAND ON COMMONWEALTH PREMISES

• 6 Assemblies involving violence or apprehension of violence  
• 7 Causing actual bodily harm or damage to property  
• 8 Dispersal of certain assemblies  
• 9 Unreasonable obstruction  
• 10 Weapons, missiles etc.  
• 11 Additional offences on premises in a Territory  
• 12 Additional offences on Commonwealth premises  
• 13 Evidence  

PART IIA--PROVISIONS--RELATING TO PREMISES OF CERTAININVESTIGATORY AUTHORITIES

• 13A Interpretation  
• 13B Application of Part  
• 13C Power of authorised officer to require information  
• 13D Power of authorised officer to search a person or require a person to deposit personal effects  
• 13E Removal from authority premises  
• 13F Person not to carry firearm, explosive substance or offensive weapon on authority premises  
• 13G Saving  
• 13H Regulations  

PART III--PROVISIONS--RELATING TO DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PREMISES AND PERSONNEL, DESIGNATED OVERSEAS MISSIONS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• 14 Relation of Part to international law  
• 15 Assemblies involving violence or apprehension of violence  
• 16 Causing actual bodily harm or damage to property  
• 17 Dispersal of certain assemblies  
• 18 Obstruction, assault etc.  
• 19 Weapons, missiles etc.  
• 20 Additional offences in relation to protected premises  
• 21 Evidence  

PART IV--GENERAL

• 22 Arrest  
• 23 Prosecutions  
• 24 Particulars to be furnished in respect of certain offences  
• 25 Exclusion of certain other laws  
• SCHEDULE