Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2018C00190:section:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2018C00190
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7
Character Range: 12188–13077

7  Causing actual bodily harm or damage to property
 (1) A person who, in a Territory or on Commonwealth premises, while taking part in an assembly, intentionally causes:
 (a) actual bodily harm to another person; or
 (b) damage, to an extent exceeding $1,500, to property;
commits an indictable offence, punishable on conviction by imprisonment, in the case of causing actual bodily harm, for a term not exceeding five years or, in the case of causing damage to property, for a term not exceeding three years.
 (2) For the purposes of an offence against subsection (1), absolute liability applies to such of the following physical elements of circumstance as are relevant to the offence:
 (a) that the person is in a Territory or on Commonwealth premises;
 (b) that the extent of the damage to property exceeds $1,500.
Note: For absolute liability, see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code.