Queensland Consolidated Acts

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 2005 - SECT 19C

19C Unlawful conduct associated with commission of racing, burn out or other hooning offence

(1) A person must not—

(a) participate in a hooning group activity; or

(b) without reasonable excuse, spectate a hooning group activity; or

(c) organise, promote or encourage the doing of a thing mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) by someone else; or

(d) for a purpose mentioned in paragraph (c) , photograph or film, or publish a photograph or film of, a motor vehicle being used to commit a racing, burn out or other hooning offence.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment.

(2) A driver of a motor vehicle who commits a racing, burn out or other hooning offence may not be convicted of both—

(a) an offence against subsection (1) (a) for participating in a hooning group activity by committing the racing, burn out or other hooning offence; and

(b) the racing, burn out or other hooning offence.

(3) Without limiting what may be a reasonable excuse for subsection (1) (b) , a person has a reasonable excuse for spectating a hooning group activity if—

(a) the person is a journalist gathering information for the purpose of journalism; or

(b) the person is gathering information for the purpose of reporting the information to the police.

(4) In this section—

"gathering" includes recording.

"hooning group activity" means a group activity involving a motor vehicle being used to commit a racing, burn out or other hooning offence.

"spectate" a hooning group activity—

(a) means remain at the place where the activity is being carried on and watch the activity; and

(b) does not include, for a person moving through or past the place where the activity is being carried on, stop momentarily to watch the activity before moving on.