Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If--
(a) 3 or more persons are present together for a common purpose; and
(b) the conduct of them taken together would cause a person in the vicinity to reasonably fear that unlawful violence will be used to a person or property;
each of the persons commits an offence.
Maximum penalty--
(a) if--
(i) the offender continues to participate in the unlawful assembly after anyone in the assembly has used unlawful violence to a person or property; and
(ii) the offender knows of, or ought reasonably to know of, the violence--2 years imprisonment; or
(b) otherwise--1 year's imprisonment.
(2) The following are immaterial--
(a) whether the original assembling was lawful or unlawful;
(b) what the common purpose is and whether it is lawful or unlawful;
(c) whether there is or is likely to be a person in the vicinity who holds the fear mentioned in subsection (1)(b).
(3) In this section--
unlawful assembly means an assembly of persons who commit the offence under subsection (1).