CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002  (No 3 of 2002)

- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Name of Act  
2. Commencement  
3. Act amended  
4. New division 6.6A  
140A. Acting with intent to cause public alarm  
140B. Threatening to act with intent to cause public alarm  
140C. Making false statements with intent to cause public alarm  
140D. Territorial nexus for offences  
ENDNOTES

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- LONG TITLE
An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1900  
    

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- SECT 1
Name of Act
This Act is the Crimes Amendment Act 2002.

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- SECT 2
Commencement
This Act commences on its notification day.

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- SECT 3
Act amended
This Act amends the Crimes Act 1900.

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- SECT 4
New division 6.6A
insert
Division 6.6A     Offences relating to causing
public alarm

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- SECT 140A
Acting with intent to cause public alarm
          A person must not, with the intention of causing public alarm or
anxiety--
         (a)     do something that could endanger someone else's life or health;
or
         (b)     do something that, in the circumstances in which it is done, a
reasonable person would suspect could endanger someone else's life or
health (whether or not it could do so).
Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- SECT 140B
Threatening to act with intent to cause public alarm
     (1)     A person must not threaten to do something that could endanger someone
else's life or health with the intention of causing public alarm or
anxiety.
Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.
     (2)     For this section, a threat may be made by any conduct, and may be
explicit or implicit and conditional or unconditional.

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- SECT 140C
Making false statements with intent to cause public alarm
     (1)     A person must not make a statement that the person believes to be
false with the intention of--
         (a)     inducing the person to whom the statement is made or others to believe
that something that could endanger someone else's life or health has been
done; and
         (b)     in that way, causing public alarm or anxiety.
Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.
     (2)     For this section, making a statement includes communicating
information by any means.

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- SECT 140D
Territorial nexus for offences
It is immaterial that the conduct of a person forming an offence against
this division happened outside the ACT if the person intended by the conduct to
cause public alarm or anxiety in the ACT.

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- NOTES Endnotes

Endnotes
Republications of amended laws
1     For the latest republication of amended laws, see
www.legislation.act.gov.au.
Penalty units
2     The Legislation Act 2001, s 133 deals with the meaning of offence
penalties that are expressed in penalty units.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 11 December
2001]
I certify that the above is a true copy of the Crimes
Amendment Bill 2002 which originated in the Assembly as the Crimes Amendment
Bill 2001 (No 2) and was passed by the Legislative Assembly on 5 March
2002.                         Clerk of the Legislative
Assembly
(c) Australian Capital Territory
2002

CRIMES AMENDMENT ACT 2002
- NOTES

Australian Capital
Territory

2002 No 3
Notified under the Legislation Act 2001 on 14 March
2002(see www.legislation.act.gov.au)