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PUBLIC ORDER (PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY) ACT 1971 - SECT 7

Causing actual bodily harm or damage to property

  (1)   A person who, in a Territory or on Commonwealth premises, while taking part in an assembly, intentionally causes:

  (a)   actual bodily harm to another person; or

  (b)   damage, to an extent exceeding $1,500, to property;

commits an indictable offence, punishable on conviction by imprisonment, in the case of causing actual bodily harm, for a term not exceeding five years or, in the case of causing damage to property, for a term not exceeding three years.

  (2)   For the purposes of an offence against subsection   ( 1), absolute liability applies to such of the following physical elements of circumstance as are relevant to the offence:

  (a)   that the person is in a Territory or on Commonwealth premises;

  (b)   that the extent of the damage to property exceeds $1,500.

Note:   For absolute liability , see section   6.2 of the Criminal Code .


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