Northern Territory Numbered Acts

POLICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2023 (NO 2 OF 2023) - SECT 7

After section 157

insert

157A     Disarming member

    (1)     A person commits an offence if:

    (a)     a member is acting in the course of the member's duties and the person is reckless in relation to that circumstance; and

    (b)     the member is armed with a firearm or ECD and the person has knowledge of that circumstance; and

    (c)     the person intentionally engages in conduct; and

    (d)     the conduct results in the member losing possession of the firearm or ECD and the person intends that result.

Maximum penalty:     Imprisonment for 6 years.

    (2)     In subsection (1):

"ECD" means an electro-muscular control device designed to emit an electric current into a human body for the purposes of physical incapacitation.