Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person who, in a Territory or on Commonwealth premises, while taking part in an assembly, 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 subsection ( 1), absolute liability applies to such of the following physical elements of circumstance as are relevant to the offence:
(a) that the person is in a Territory or on Commonwealth premises;
(b) that the extent of the damage to property exceeds $1,500.
Note: For absolute liability , see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code .