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.