CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 26 Setting traps etc. to cause serious injury
CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 26
Setting traps etc. to cause serious injuryA person who sets a trap or device with the intention of causing, or being reckless as to whether or not there is caused, serious injury to another person (whether a trespasser or not) is guilty of an indictable offence.
Penalty: Level 5 imprisonment (10 years maximum).
S. 27 substituted by No. 10233 s. 8(2), amended by Nos 49/1991
s. 119(1)
(Sch. 2
item 14),
48/1997
s. 60(1)(Sch. 1 item 11).