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FIREARMS ACT 1997 - SECT 84

Discharge of firearm causing danger

    (1)     A person must not discharge a firearm to endanger, annoy or frighten, or in a manner that is likely to endanger, annoy or frighten, the public or a person.

Maximum penalty:     200 penalty units or imprisonment for 4 years.

    (2)     It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) for the defendant to prove that he or she had a lawful excuse for discharging the firearm in the circumstances.



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