South Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 259

259—Interpretation

In this Part—

"act prejudicing public health or safety" includes—

            (a)         interference with the provision of water, electricity, gas, sewerage, drainage, or waste disposal in a way that prejudices, or could prejudice, the health or safety of the public;

            (b)         interference with a transport or communication system in a way that prejudices, or could prejudice, the health or safety of the public;

            (c)         interference with any other facility, system or service on which the health or safety of the public is dependent in a way that prejudices, or could prejudice, the health or safety of the public;

"benefit" extends to non-material benefits (or what might be conceived to be benefits)—so that a person who (for example) engages in conduct out of anger or malice is taken to gain a benefit from that conduct by indulging that anger or malice;

"consumer" of goods means a purchaser of the goods or a person who consumes or uses the goods;

"to contaminate" goods means to contaminate or interfere with the goods;

"goods" means any article or substance offered for sale, or intended to be offered for sale, to the public;

"public" includes a section of the public (such as consumers of goods of a particular description);

"threat" includes—

            (a)         a threat to be implied from conduct;

            (b)         a conditional threat.