Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

CRIME PREVENTION POWERS ACT 1998 (REPEALED) - SECT 4

    (1)         This section applies if there are reasonable grounds for a police officer to believe that a person in a public place has engaged, or is likely to engage, in violent conduct in that place.

    (2)     The police officer may direct the person to leave the vicinity of the public place.

    (3)     The direction may be made subject to either or both of the following conditions:

        (a)     if the police officer has reasonable grounds for believing that the person is likely to engage in violent conduct while, or immediately after, leaving the vicinity by a particular route—that the person leave the vicinity by a different route (whether the route is stated or unstated);

        (b)     that the person not return to the vicinity for a stated period of not longer than 6 hours.

    (4)     A person must not, without reasonable excuse, contravene a direction (including a condition of a direction) given to the person under subsection (2).

Maximum penalty: 2 penalty units.

    (5)     This section does not apply in relation to a person who, whether in the company of other people or not, is—

        (a)     picketing a place of employment; or

        (b)     demonstrating or protesting about a particular issue; or

        (c)     speaking, bearing or otherwise identifying with a banner, placard or sign or otherwise behaving in a way that is apparently intended to publicise the person's view about a particular issue.