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CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 32AA

32AA—Discharge of firearms to injure etc

        (1)         A person who, without lawful excuse, discharges a firearm intending to injure, annoy or frighten any person is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 8 years.

        (2)         A person who, without lawful excuse, discharges a firearm intending to damage any property is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.

        (3)         A person who, without lawful excuse, discharges a firearm and who is reckless as to whether that act injures, annoys or frightens, or may injure, annoy or frighten, any person is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.

        (4)         A person who, without lawful excuse, discharges a firearm and who is reckless as to whether that act damages, or may damage, any property is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years.

        (5)         In proceedings for an offence against this section, it is not necessary for the prosecution to establish that a person was, in fact, injured, annoyed or frightened or that property was, in fact, damaged (as the case requires) by the defendant's act.

        (6)         In this section—

"reckless"—a person is reckless as to whether an act injures, annoys or frightens, or may injure, annoy or frighten any person, or damages, or may damage, any property, if the person—

            (a)         is aware of a substantial risk that the act could injure, annoy or frighten any person or damage any property; and

            (b)         does the act despite the risk and without adequate justification.



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