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POLICE OFFENCES ACT 1935 - SECT 20A

Division III - Consorting Interpretation of Division III

In this Division –
consort means consort in person or by any other means, including by electronic or other forms of communication;
convicted offender means a person who has been convicted of a serious offence and who has attained the age of 18 years;
dependant , in relation to a defendant, means a family member of the defendant who is wholly or mainly dependent on the defendant;
family member , in relation to a defendant, means –
(a) the spouse of the defendant; or
(b) if the defendant is in a significant relationship with a person, within the meaning of the Relationships Act 2003 , that person; or
(c) a child of the defendant; or
(d) a parent of the defendant; or
(e) a sibling of the defendant, including a half-brother or half-sister of the defendant; or
(f) if the defendant is an Aboriginal person within the meaning of the Aboriginal Lands Act 1995 , a person who, under Aboriginal tradition, is regarded as a person who is, in relation to the defendant, a person referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e); or
(g) a relative, or step-relative, of the defendant, who lives with the defendant;
health care worker means a State Service employee, or other person, who is employed or engaged to provide health advice or health care;
official warning means a warning, authorised under section 20D(1) to be given, that has not been revoked under section 20D(6)(b) or section 20E(4)(b) ;
serious offence means –
(a) an indictable offence, whether the offence is tried on indictment or summarily; and
(b) an offence under the Firearms Act 1996 ; and
(c) an offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act 2001 ; and
(d) an offence under the Sex Industry Offences Act 2005 ; and
(e) an offence under Part 8 of the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Enforcement Act 1995 ; and
(f) an offence, under a law of the Commonwealth, another State, a Territory, or another country, that, if the offence had occurred in this State, would be an offence referred to in another paragraph of this definition.



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