Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p194
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 194/268)
Character Range: 855166–857920

physical harm includes:
 (a) unconsciousness; and
 (b) pain; and
 (c) disfigurement; and
 (d) infection with a disease; and
 (e) any physical contact with a person that the person might reasonably object to in the circumstances (whether or not the person was aware of it at the time).
serious harm means any harm (including the cumulative effect of more than one harm) that:
 (a) endangers, or is likely to endanger, a person's life; or
 (b) is, or is likely to be, significant and longstanding.
 (2) A Commonwealth frontline worker is a person:
 (a) who is a Commonwealth public official; and
 (b) who performs work requiring the person to deal directly (whether or not in person) with the public, or a class of the public, as a primary function of their role; and
 (c) who is not a Commonwealth judicial officer or a Commonwealth law enforcement officer.
 (3) Without limiting paragraph (2)(b), the regulations may prescribe one or more categories of persons who, for the purposes of that paragraph, are taken to perform work requiring the persons to deal directly with the public, or a class of the public, as a primary function of their role.

146.2  Causing harm
  For the purposes of this Part, a person's conduct is taken to cause harm if it substantially contributes to harm.

Division 147—Causing harm to Commonwealth public officials

147.1  Causing harm to a Commonwealth public official etc.

Causing harm to a Commonwealth public official
 (1) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
 (a) the first person engages in conduct; and
 (b) the first person's conduct causes harm to a public official; and
 (c) the first person intends that his or her conduct cause harm to the official; and
 (d) the harm is caused without the consent of the official; and
 (e) the first person engages in his or her conduct because of:
 (i) the official's status as a public official; or
 (ii) any conduct engaged in by the official in the official's capacity as a public official; and
 (ea) the public official is a Commonwealth public official; and
 (eb) if subparagraph (e)(i) applies—the status mentioned in that subparagraph was status as a Commonwealth public official; and
 (ec) if subparagraph (e)(ii) applies—the conduct mentioned in that subparagraph was engaged in by the official in the official's capacity as a Commonwealth public official.
Penalty:
 (f) if the official is a Commonwealth judicial officer, a Commonwealth law enforcement officer or a Commonwealth frontline worker—imprisonment for 13 years; or
 (g) in any other case—imprisonment for 10 years.
 (1A) Absolute liability applies to the paragraphs (1)(ea), (eb) and (ec) elements of the offence.
 (1B) If:
 (a) a person is charged with an offence against subsection (1); and