Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC ORDEU(PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY) ACT 1971 - SECT 7

(1)

A person who, in a Territory or on Commonwealth premises, while taking part in an assembly, intentionally causes:

(a)

actual bodily harm to another person; or

(b)

damage, to an extent exceeding $1,500, to property;

is guilty of an indictable offence, punishable on conviction by imprisonment, in the case of causing actual bodily harm, for a term not exceeding five years or, in the case of causing damage to property, for a term not exceeding three years.

(2)

For the purposes of an offence against subsection (1), absolute liability applies to such of the following physical elements of circumstance as are relevant to the offence:

(a)

that the person is in a Territory or on Commonwealth premises;

(b)

that the extent of the damage to property exceeds $1,500.

Note: For absolute liability , see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code .