Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p195
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 195/268)
Character Range: 857680–860390

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
 (b) the public official concerned is a Commonwealth judicial officer, a Commonwealth law enforcement officer or a Commonwealth frontline worker;
a court of summary jurisdiction may, with the consent of the defendant and the prosecutor and if the court is satisfied that it is proper to do so, determine the charge summarily.
 (1C) If a court of summary jurisdiction convicts a person of an offence against subsection (1) in accordance with subsection (1B), the penalty that the court may impose is a sentence of imprisonment not exceeding 2 years or a fine not exceeding 120 penalty units, or both.

Causing harm to a former Governor‑General, former Minister or former Parliamentary Secretary
 (2) 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 another person; and
 (c) the other person is a former Governor‑General, a former Minister or a former Parliamentary Secretary; and
 (d) the first person intends that his or her conduct cause harm to the other person; and
 (e) the harm is caused without the consent of the other person; and
 (f) the first person engages in his or her conduct because of:
 (i) the other person's status as a former Governor‑General, former Minister or former Parliamentary Secretary; or
 (ii) any conduct engaged in by the other person in the other person's former capacity as a Governor‑General, Minister or Parliamentary Secretary.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.

147.2  Threatening to cause harm to a Commonwealth public official etc.

Threatening to cause serious harm
 (1) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
 (a) the first person makes to another person (the second person) a threat to cause serious harm to the second person or to a third person; and
 (b) the second person or the third person is a public official; and
 (c) the first person:
 (i) intends the second person to fear that the threat will be carried out; or
 (ii) is reckless as to causing the second person to fear that the threat will be carried out; and
 (d) the first person makes the threat 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
 (da) the official is a Commonwealth public official; and
 (db) if subparagraph (d)(i) applies—the status mentioned in that subparagraph was status as a Commonwealth public official; and
 (dc) if