Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 197B

             (1)  A detainee commits an offence if he or she manufactures, possesses, uses or distributes a weapon.

Penalty:  Imprisonment for 5 years.

             (2)  In this section:

"weapon" includes:

                     (a)  a thing made or adapted for use for inflicting bodily injury; or

                     (b)  a thing where the detainee who has the thing intends or threatens to use the thing, or intends that the thing be used, to inflict bodily injury.