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PUBLIC ORDER (PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY) ACT 1971 - SECT 9

Unreasonable obstruction

  (1)   A person who, in a Territory or on Commonwealth premises, while taking part in an assembly, engages in unreasonable obstruction commits an offence, punishable on conviction by a fine of not more than 20 penalty units.

  (2)   For the purposes of an offence against subsection   ( 1), absolute liability applies to the physical element of circumstance of the offence, that the person is in a Territory or on Commonwealth premises.

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


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