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Provision Reference: s 30 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 36998–39974

30  Regulations
  The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

The Schedule—Offences against the person
Section 9

 1. For the purposes of section 9, the expression offence against the person means any offence that is punishable under the law of Australia or of a State or Territory and an essential element of which is an act or omission that causes, or tends to cause, death, danger to life, bodily harm or apprehension of harm.
 2. Without limiting the generality of the last preceding paragraph, the expression offence against the person includes murder, manslaughter, infanticide, any other form of unlawful homicide, unlawful wounding, assault, robbery with violence or threat of violence, rape and other offences against women and girls, unnatural or indecent acts or conduct, unlawful abortion, incest, abduction, kidnapping and false imprisonment, as provided by the law in force in that part of Australia in which the offence is committed.

Offences Against Property
 3. For the purposes of section 9, the expression offence against property includes, without prejudice to the generality of the expression, burglary, housebreaking, stealing, larceny, embezzlement, any form of wrongful taking or appropriation of property, obtaining property by extortion, fraud or false pretences, and any form of malicious damage to property, as provided by the law in force in that part of Australia in which the offence is committed.

General
 4. A reference in the preceding paragraphs of this Schedule to a particular offence shall be read as including a reference to any offence (by whatever name called or however described in the law of Australia or of the State or Territory concerned) that is substantially similar to that offence.

Endnotes

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Legislation history and amendment history—Endnotes 3 and 4
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