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CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 381

Possession of offensive weapons and disabling substances with intent

    (1)     A person who has on his or her person an offensive weapon or a disabling substance, in circumstances indicating intent to use the weapon or substance to commit an offence involving actual or threatened violence, is guilty of an offence punishable, on conviction, by a fine of $2 000, imprisonment for 1 year or both.

    (2)     In subsection (1):

"disabling substance" means any anaesthetising or other substance made for use for disabling a person, or intended for that use by the person who has it in his or her possession.



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