Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to any lawful public meeting held in relation to a referendum during the referendum period.
(2) Any person who, at any public meeting to which this section applies, acts in a disorderly manner with the intention of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting is held commits an offence.
(3) The chairperson of a meeting to which this section applies:
(a) may direct a person who, in the opinion of the chairperson, is preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting is being held, to leave the place in which the meeting is being held; and
(b) if the person fails or refuses to leave the place in which the meeting is being held, may direct a constable to remove the person from that place;
and the constable may thereupon take such steps as are necessary to remove the person.
(4) A person who:
(a) has left a place in which a meeting to which this section applies is being held in accordance with a direction given under paragraph (3)(a); or
(b) has been removed from a place in which a meeting to which this section applies is being held in accordance with a direction given under paragraph (3)(b);
shall not, without the permission of the chairperson of the meeting, return to that place while the meeting is still in progress.
Penalty for a contravention of subsection (4): Imprisonment for 6 months or 10 penalty units, or both.