Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:2:p141
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2 (pt 141/169)
Character Range: 1540055–1542567

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471.11  Using a postal or similar service to make a threat

Threat to kill
 (1) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
 (a) the first person uses a postal or similar service to make to another person (the second person) a threat to kill the second person or a third person; and
 (b) the first person intends the second person to fear that the threat will be carried out.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.

Threat to cause serious harm
 (2) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
 (a) the first person uses a postal or similar service to make to another person (the second person) a threat to cause serious harm to the second person or a third person; and
 (b) the first person intends the second person to fear that the threat will be carried out.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years.

Actual fear not necessary
 (3) In a prosecution for an offence against this section, it is not necessary to prove that the person receiving the threat actually feared that the threat would be carried out.

Definitions
 (4) In this section:
fear includes apprehension.
threat to cause serious harm to a person includes a threat to substantially contribute to serious harm to the person.

471.12  Using a postal or similar service to menace, harass or cause offence
  A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person uses a postal or similar service; and
 (b) the person does so in a way (whether by the method of use or the content of a communication, or both) that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, menacing, harassing or offensive.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

471.13  Causing a dangerous article to be carried by a postal or similar service

Offence
 (1) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
 (a) the first person causes an article to be carried by a postal or similar service; and
 (b) the person does so in a way that gives rise to a danger of death or serious harm to another person; and
 (c) the first person is reckless as to the danger of death or serious harm.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.

Danger of death or serious harm
 (2) For the purposes of this section, if a person's conduct exposes another person to the risk of catching a disease that may give rise to a danger of death or serious harm to the other person, the conduct is taken to give rise to a danger of death or serious harm to the other person.
 (3) For the purposes of this section, a person's conduct gives rise to a danger of death or serious harm if the