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CRIMES ACT 1900 - 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: 200 penalty units, imprisonment for 10 years or both.



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