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Queensland
RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS
OFFENCES BILL 2001
«Queensland
RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS OFFENCES
BILL 2001
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Insertion of new pt 9AA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PART 9AA--SENTENCES OF OFFENCES WITH CIRCUMSTANCE
OF RACIAL OR RELIGIOUS VILIFICATION
161AA Offence involving racial or religious vilification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2001
A BILL
FOR
An Act to amend the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992
s1 4 s3
Racial and Religious Offences Bill 2001
The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
1 Short title
Clause 2
This Act may be cited as the Racial and Religious Offences Act 2001. 3
2 Act amended
Clause 4
This Act amends the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992. 5
3 Insertion of new pt 9AA
Clause 6
Before part 9A-- 7
insert-- 8
`PART 9AA--SENTENCES OF OFFENCES WITH 9
CIRCUMSTANCE OF RACIAL OR RELIGIOUS 10
VILIFICATION 11
`161AA Offence involving racial or religious vilification 12
`(1) If a person commits an offence punishable by imprisonment, it is a 13
circumstance of aggravation if the offence involves the person, by a public 14
act, inciting hatred towards, serious contempt for, or severe ridicule of, a 15
person or group of persons on the ground of the race or religion of the 16
person or members of the group in a way that includes-- 17
(a) threatening physical harm towards, or towards any property of, 18
the person or group of persons; or 19
(b) inciting others to threaten physical harm towards, or towards any 20
property of, the person or group of persons. 21
`(2) If a person is found guilty of the offence, with the circumstance of 22
aggravation mentioned in subsection (1), the imprisonment to which the 23
offender is liable is increased by 3 years. 24
`(3) The sentencing court must state the extent to which the sentence that 25
would have been imposed if the circumstance of aggravation did not exist 26
has been increased because of the existence of the circumstance. 27
s3 5 s3
Racial and Religious Offences Bill 2001
`(4) In this section-- 1
"public act" includes-- 2
(a) any form of communication to the public, including speaking, 3
writing, printing, displaying notices, broadcasting, telecasting, 4
screening and playing of tapes or other recorded material; and 5
(b) any conduct, not being a form of communication mentioned in 6
paragraph (a), observable by the public, including actions and 7
gestures and the wearing or display of clothing, signs, flags, 8
emblems and insignia; and 9
(c) the distribution or dissemination of any matter to the public with 10
knowledge that the matter promotes or expresses hatred towards, 11
serious contempt for, or severe ridicule of, a person or group of 12
persons on the ground of the race or religion of the person or 13
members of the group.'. 14
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