New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 60A

60A Assault and other actions against law enforcement officers (other than police officers)

(1) A person who assaults, throws a missile at, stalks, harasses or intimidates a law enforcement officer (other than a police officer) while in the execution of the officer’s duty, although no actual bodily harm is occasioned to the officer, is liable to imprisonment for 5 years.

(2) A person who assaults a law enforcement officer (other than a police officer) while in the execution of the officer’s duty, and by the assault occasions actual bodily harm, is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.

(3) A person who recklessly by any means:

(a) wounds a law enforcement officer (other than a police officer), or

(b) inflicts grievous bodily harm on a law enforcement officer (other than a police officer),

while in the execution of the officer’s duty is liable to imprisonment for 12 years.

(4) For the purposes of this section, an action is taken to be carried out in relation to a law enforcement officer while in the execution of the officer’s duty, even though the officer is not on duty at the time, if it is carried out:

(a) as a consequence of, or in retaliation for, actions undertaken by that officer in the execution of the officer’s duty, or

(b) because the officer is a law enforcement officer.