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SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1953 - SECT 51

51—Use of firearms

        (1)         A person who discharges a firearm or throws a stone or other missile, without reasonable cause and so as to injure, annoy or frighten, or be likely to injure, annoy or frighten, any person, or so as to damage, or be likely to damage, any property, is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.

        (2)         In this section—

"firearm" means a gun or device, including an airgun, from or by which any kind of shot, bullet or missile can be discharged;

"throw" includes to discharge or project by means of any mechanism or device.



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