CRIMES (FOREIGN INCURSIONS AND RECRUITMENT) ACT 1978 No. 13 of 1978 - SECT 6
Incursions into foreign countries for purpose of engaging in hostile activities
CRIMES (FOREIGN INCURSIONS AND RECRUITMENT) ACT 1978 No. 13 of 1978 - SECT 6
Incursions into foreign countries for purpose of engaging in hostile activities
6. (1) A person shall not-
(a) enter a foreign country with intent to engage in a hostile activity
against the government of that country; or
(b) engage, in a foreign country, in a hostile activity against the
government of that country.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 14 years.
(2) A person shall not be taken to have committed an offence against this
section unless-
(a) at the time of the doing of the act that is alleged to constitute the
offence, the person-
(i) was an Australian citizen; or
(ii) not being an Australian citizen, was ordinarily resident in
Australia; or
(b) at any time during the period of one year immediately preceding the
doing of that act, the person was present in Australia for a purpose
connected with that act.
(3) For the purposes of sub-section (1), engaging in a hostile activity
against the government of a foreign country consists of doing an act for the
purpose of achieving any one or more of the following objectives (whether or
not such an objective is achieved):
(a) the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the foreign
country;
(b) causing by force or violence the public in the foreign country to be
in fear of suffering death or personal injury;
(c) causing the death of, or bodily injury to, a person who-
(i) is the head of state of the foreign country; or
(ii) holds, or performs any of the duties of, a public office of the
foreign country; or
(d) unlawfully destroying or damaging any real or personal property
belonging to the government of the foreign country.
(4) Nothing in this section applies to an act done by a person in the course
of, and as part of, his service in any capacity in or with-
(a) the armed forces of the government of a foreign country; or
(b) any other armed force in respect of which a declaration by the
Minister under sub-section 9 (2) is in force.