CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1988 No. 81
NEW SOUTH WALES
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
1. Short title
2. Commencement3. Amendment of Crimes Act 1900 No. 40
4. Amendment of Motor Traffic Act 1909 No. 5
5. Operation of Schedule 4
SCHEDULE 1—AMENDMENTS RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER
SCHEDULE 2—AMENDMENTS RELATING TO CULPABLE DRIVING AND
CULPABLE NAVIGATION
SCHEDULE 3—AMENDMENTS RELATING TO CAR STEALING
SCHEDULE 4—AMENDMENTS RELATING TO ASSAULTS
SCHEDULE 5—MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTSSCHEDULE 6—AMENDMENT OF MOTOR TRAFFIC ACT 1909
CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1988 No. 81
NEW SOUTH WALES
Act No. 81, 1988
An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1900 with respect to offences relating to public order, assaults and car stealing; to amend the Motor Traffic Act 1909 with respect to offences relating to the driving or use of motor vehicles; and for other purposes. [Assented to 6 December 1988]
Crimes (Amendment) 1988
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Crimes (Amendment) Act 1988.
Commencement
2. This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by
proclamation.
Amendment of Crimes Act 1900 No. 40
3. The Crimes Act 1900 is amended as set out in Schedules 1-5.
Amendment of Motor Traffic Act 1909 No. 5
4. The Motor Traffic Act 1909 is amended as set out in Schedule 6.
Operation of Schedule 4
5. (1) An amendment to the Crimes Act 1900 effected by Schedule 4 to
this Act applies only in respect of offences committed after the
commencement of the amendment.(2) The Crimes Act 1900 applies in respect of offences committed before the commencement of an amendment effected by Schedule 4 to this Act as if the amendment had not been made.
SCHEDULE 1—AMENDMENTS RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER
(Sec. 3)
(1) Section 1 (Short title and contents of Act)—
After the matter relating to Part 3, insert: PART 3A—OFFENCES RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER—
ss. 9 3 A - 9 3 E
(2) Part 3A—
After Part 3, insert:
PART 3A—OFFENCES RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER
Definition
93A. In this Part—
"violence" means any violent conduct, so that—
(a)
except for the purposes of section 93c, it includes violent conduct towards property as well as violent conduct towards persons; and
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(b)
it is not restricted to conduct causing or intended to cause injury or damage but includes any other violent conduct (for example, throwing at or towards a person a missile of a kind capable of causing injury which does not hit or falls short).
Riot
93B. (1) Where 12 or more persons who are present together
use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his or her personal safety, each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot and liable to penal…