SERIOUS CRIME CONTROL ACT 2009 (NO 32 OF 2009) - SECT 3 Main object of Act

SERIOUS CRIME CONTROL ACT 2009 (NO 32 OF 2009) - SECT 3

    (1)     The main object of this Act is to protect members of the public from violence associated with serious criminal activity.

    (2)     The main object is to be achieved primarily by making control orders to disrupt and restrict the activities of persons who:

    (a)     engage, or have engaged, in serious criminal activity; or

    (b)     are, or have been, members of declared organisations.

    (3)     The main object is also to be achieved by allowing:

    (a)     senior police officers to make public safety orders; and

    (b)     courts to make fortification removal orders.

    (4)     Without limiting subsections (1) to (3), it is not the intention of the Legislative Assembly that the powers in this Act be used in a manner that would diminish the freedom of persons in the Territory to participate in advocacy, protest, dissent or industrial action.