Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person who:
(a) assaults a protected person;
(b) harasses a protected person or otherwise unreasonably interferes with the free and safe discharge of the duties of a protected person;
(c) behaves in an offensive, threatening or insulting manner towards a protected person; or
(d) unreasonably obstructs a protected person;
commits an offence, punishable on conviction by a fine of not more than 20 penalty units.
(2) For the purposes of an offence against paragraph ( 1)(a), (b), (c) or (d), absolute liability applies to such of the following physical elements of circumstance as are relevant to the offence:
(a) that the person mentioned in the paragraph is a protected person;
(b) that interference with the discharge of the duties of such a person is interference with the free and safe discharge of those duties.
Note: For absolute liability , see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code .