Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 175

    (1)     This section applies if a police officer reasonably believes that a person (whether part of a group or not) has recently engaged in, is engaged in, or is likely in the immediate future to engage in, conduct—

        (a)     involving—

              (i)     violence towards, or intimidation of, a person; or

              (ii)     damage to property; or

        (b)     that would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety.

    (2)     However, this section does not apply to a person who (whether part of a group or not) is—

        (a)     picketing a place of employment; or

        (b)     demonstrating or protesting about a particular issue; or

        (c)     speaking, bearing or otherwise identifying with a banner, placard or sign or otherwise behaving in a way that is apparently intended to publicise the person's view about a particular issue.

    (3)     The police officer may give the person a direction (an exclusion direction ) to do any of the following:

        (a)     immediately leave an area specified by the officer (an  exclusion zone );

        (b)     remain outside the exclusion zone for a period, decided by the officer (an exclusion period ), of not more than 6 hours;

        (c)     leave the exclusion zone by a particular route, or in a particular direction, decided by the officer.