(1) A person must not use offensive language in or near, or within hearing from, a public place or a school. Maximum penalty: 6 penalty units.
(1) In this section: protected place means a shrine, monument or statue located in a public place, and (without limitation) includes a war memorial.war memorial means a war memorial located in a public place, and (without limitation) includes:
(a) the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, being:
(i) the memorial building referred to in the , and Anzac Memorial (Building) Act 1923 (ii) the land described in the Schedule to that Act, and (iii) any other structure on that land, and (b) any other place prescribed under subsection (4) as a war memorial for the purposes of this section.
(1) A person must not have spray paint in the person’s possession with the intention that it should be used to damage or deface premises or other property. Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 months.
(1) A person under the age of 18 years is guilty of an offence if the person possesses or consumes any liquor in a public place, unless the person establishes that:
(a) the person was under the supervision of a responsible adult, or (b) the person had a reasonable excuse for possessing or consuming the liquor. Maximum penalty: $20. (2) A police officer may seize liquor in the possession of a person in a public place, if the officer suspects, on reasonable grounds, that:
(a) the person is under the age of 18 years, and (b) the person is not under the supervision of a responsible adult, and (c) the person does not have a reasonable excuse for possessing the liquor. (3) Liquor seized under this section is forfeited to the Crown.
(1) If 3 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his or her personal safety, each of the persons using or threatening unlawful violence is guilty of an offence. Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months. (2) It is immaterial whether or not the 3 or more persons use or threaten unlawful violence simultaneously.
(1) A person must not, without reasonable excuse (proof of which lies on the person), have in his or her custody a knife in a public place or a school. Maximum penalty:
(a) 5 penalty units, or (b) in the case of a person dealt with once previously for a knife-related offence—10 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both, or (c) in the case of a person dealt with more than once previously for a knife-related offence—20 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, or both. (2) Without limitation, it is a reasonable excuse for the purposes of this section for a person to have custody of a knife, if:
(a) the custody is reasonably necessary in all the circumstances for any of the following:
(i) the lawful pursuit of the person’s occupation, (ii) the preparation or consumption of food or drink, (iii) participation in a lawful entertainment, recreation or sport, (iv) the exhibition of knives for retail or other trade purposes, (v) an organised exhibition by knife collectors, (vi) the wearing of an official uniform, (vii) genuine religious purposes, or (b) the custody is reasonably necessary in all the circumstances during travel to or from or incidental to an activity referred to in paragraph (a), or (c) the custody is of a kind prescribed by the regulations.
(1) The parent of a child, being a child:
(a) who is under the age of 18 years, and (b) who commits an offence against section 11C, is guilty of an offence if the parent knowingly authorised or permitted the child to commit the offence. Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.
(1) A person who sells a knife to a child under the age of 16 years is guilty of an offence. Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units. (2) It is a defence (proof of which lies on the person) to a prosecution for an offence under this section that the person selling the knife believed on reasonable grounds that the child was of or above the age of 16 years.
(1) A person must not operate a motorised vehicle or motorised vessel in a public place:
(a) in such a manner as to harass or intimidate another person, or (b) in such a manner as would be likely to cause a person of reasonable firmness to fear for his or her personal safety. Maximum penalty: 6 penalty units.
(1) A person shall not knowingly live wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution of another person. Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
(1) A person in a road or road related area shall not, near or within view from a dwelling, school, church or hospital, solicit another person for the purpose of prostitution. Maximum penalty: 6 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 months.
(1) A person in a road or road related area must not, near or within view from a dwelling, school, church or hospital, solicit another person for the purpose of prostitution. Maximum penalty: 6 penalty units or imprisonment for 3 months.
(1) Each of the persons taking part in an act of prostitution:
(a) in, or within view from, a school, church, hospital or public place, or (b) within view from a dwelling, is guilty of an offence. Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months.
(1) A member of the Police Force may apply to an authorised justice for the issue of a search warrant if the member of the Police Force has reasonable grounds for believing that section 16 or 17 is being contravened or, within 72 hours, will be contravened with respect to any premises.
(1) A senior police officer may apply to the Minister for premises to be declared a sex club under this Part. (2) The Minister may declare the premises to be a sex club under this Part if satisfied that:
(a) the premises are used solely or substantially for live sex entertainment, and (b) there is no effective prohibition under the or any other law on minors entering the premises. Liquor Act 1982
(1) If a police officer believes on reasonable grounds that a minor is in a declared sex club, the officer may, at any time of the day or night, enter the premises to ascertain whether an offence under this Part has been or is being committed.
(1) A person must not, without lawful authority, bring or attempt by any means whatever to introduce into any place of detention any spiritous or fermented liquor. Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 6 months or 10 penalty units, or both. (2) A person must not, without lawful authority, bring or attempt by any means whatever to introduce into any place of detention any poison listed in Appendix D of Schedule Four, or in Schedule Eight, to the Poisons List in force under the . Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 1966 Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 2 years or 20 penalty units, or both.
(1) A person:
(a) who brings or attempts by any means whatever to introduce a syringe into a place of detention, or (b) who supplies or attempts by any means whatever to supply a syringe to an inmate who is in lawful custody, is guilty of an offence. Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 2 years. (2) A person is not guilty of an offence of bringing or attempting to introduce a syringe into a place of detention if the person satisfies the court that the officer in charge of the place of detention had consented to the person’s bringing or introducing the syringe into the place of detention.
(1) A person must not, without reasonable excuse (proof of which lies on the person), have in his or her possession an offensive weapon or instrument in a place of detention. Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 2 years or 50 penalty units, or both.
(1) If a police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that a person who is in a public place or a school has a dangerous implement in his or her custody, the police officer may request the person to submit to a search comprising any or all of the following procedures:
(a) a search of the person conducted by passing an electronic metal detection device over or in close proximity to the person’s outer garments and to any bag or other personal effect that the person has with him or her and is within view, (b) a search of the person conducted by quickly running the hands over the person’s outer garments, (c) an examination of any bag or other personal effect that the person has with him or her and is within view, so long as it can be examined with reasonable convenience to the person, (d) in the case of a person who is in a school and is a student at the school, a search of the person’s locker at the school and an examination of any bag or other personal effect that is inside the locker. (2) In conducting a search of a person under subsection (1), a police officer:
(a) must not request the person to remove any item of clothing being worn by the person, other than a hat, gloves, coat or jacket, and (b) may, if the police officer has asked the person to remove a coat or jacket, treat the person’s outer garments as being the person’s outer garments after the coat or jacket has been removed, and (c) if reasonably possible to do so, should carry out any examination of a bag that the person has with him or her by allowing the person to hold the bag open and move the contents so that they can be more easily viewed by the police officer, and (d) must, in the case of a search of a student in a school and if reasonably possible to do so, allow the student to nominate an adult who is on the school premises to be present during the search. (3) For the purposes of this section, the fact that a person is present in a location with a high incidence of violent crime may be taken into account in determining whether there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the person has a dangerous implement in his or her custody.
(1) A police officer may give a direction to a person in a public place if the police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the person’s behaviour or presence in the place (referred to in this section as relevant conduct ):
(a) is obstructing another person or persons or traffic, or (b) constitutes harassment or intimidation of another person or persons, or (c) is causing or likely to cause fear to another person or persons, so long as the relevant conduct would be such as to cause fear to a person of reasonable firmness, or (d) is for the purpose of unlawfully supplying, or intending to unlawfully supply, or soliciting another person or persons to unlawfully supply, any prohibited drug, or (e) is for the purpose of obtaining, procuring or purchasing any prohibited drug that it would be unlawful for the person to possess. (2) The other person or persons referred to in subsection (1) need not be in the public place but must be near that place at the time the relevant conduct is being engaged in. (3) Such a direction must be reasonable in the circumstances for the purpose of:
(a) reducing or eliminating the obstruction, harassment, intimidation or fear, or (b) stopping the supply, or soliciting to supply, of the prohibited drug, or (c) stopping the obtaining, procuring or purchasing of the prohibited drug. (4) A police officer may give a direction under subsection (1) only if before giving the direction the police officer:
(a) provides evidence to the person that he or she is a police officer (unless the police officer is in uniform), and (b) provides his or her name and place of duty, and (c) informs the person of the reason for the direction, and (d) warns the person that failure to comply with the direction may be an offence. (5) If a police officer has complied with subsection (4) in giving a direction to a person and the person fails to comply with the direction, the police officer may again give the direction and, in that case, must again warn the person that failure to comply with the direction may be an offence. (6) A person must not, without reasonable excuse (proof of which lies on the person), fail to comply with a direction given in accordance with subsection (5). Maximum penalty: 2 penalty units.
(1) A police officer to whom it appears that a person has committed an offence under section 11C or 28F may serve on the apparent offender a notice to the effect that, if it is not desired to have the matter determined by a court, the person served may, within a time specified in the notice, pay an amount prescribed by the regulations to an officer so specified. (2) A notice under this section may be served personally or by post.
(1) A police officer to whom it appears that a person has committed an offence under section 28J may serve on the person a notice to the effect that, if it is not desired to have the matter determined by a court, the person may, within a time specified in the notice, pay an amount prescribed by the regulations to an officer so specified.
(1) A court that convicts a person of an offence under section 8 (being an offence committed after the commencement of this section) may, in addition to any penalty imposed for the offence, order the person to pay an amount not exceeding 20 penalty units as the cost of, or as a contribution to the cost of, the repair or restoration of any damage caused by the action that resulted in the conviction. (2) An amount ordered to be paid under subsection (1) is to be paid to such person or body as the court orders, or in the absence of such an order to the Consolidated Fund.