South Australian Consolidated Acts

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1953 - SECT 17B

17B—Interference with gates

        (1)         A person who, without the authority of the occupier of land on which animals are kept in the course of primary production—

            (a)         opens and leaves open a gate on or leading to the land; or

            (b)         unfastens and leaves unfastened a gate on or leading to the land; or

            (c)         on finding a gate on or leading to the land open, closes it and leaves it closed,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $750.

        (2)         It is a defence to a charge of an offence against subsection (1) to prove that the defendant's act was not intended to cause loss, annoyance or inconvenience and was not done with reckless indifference to the interests of the owner of the animals.