Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00987:reg:20
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00987
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 20
Character Range: 17867–19222

20  Damaging Gallery material and property
 (1) A person commits an offence if the person:
 (a) is on Gallery land or in a Gallery building; and
 (b) touches or interferes with Gallery material.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
 (2) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person is on Gallery land or in a Gallery building; and
 (b) the person engages in conduct; and
 (c) the conduct damages Gallery material.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
 (3) Recklessness or negligence is the fault element for the result mentioned in paragraph (2)(c).
 (4) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person:
 (i) attaches an article to a building, wall or fence; or
 (ii) writes on a building, fixture, fitting, wall or fence; and
 (b) the building is a Gallery building, or the wall, fence, fixture or fitting is on Gallery land.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
 (5) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person engages in conduct; and
 (b) the conduct damages a building, fixture, fitting, wall, fence, plant or garden; and
 (c) the building is a Gallery building, or the wall, fence, fixture, plant or garden is on Gallery land.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
 (6) Recklessness or negligence is the fault element for the result mentioned in paragraph (5)(b).
 (7) This section does not limit section 132.8A of the Criminal Code (about damaging or destroying Commonwealth property).