Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person who, while taking part in an assembly that is in relation to protected premises or to a protected person, intentionally causes:
(a) actual bodily harm to another person; or
(b) damage, to an extent exceeding $1,500, to property;
commits an indictable offence, punishable on conviction by imprisonment, in the case of causing actual bodily harm, for a term not exceeding five years or, in the case of causing damage to property, for a term not exceeding three years.
(2) For the purposes of an offence against paragraph 16(1)(b), absolute liability applies to the physical element of circumstance, that the extent of the damage to property exceeds $1,500.
Note: For absolute liability , see section 6.2 of the Criminal
Code .