Western Australian Current Acts

CONSPIRACY AND PROTECTION OF PROPERTY ACT OF 1900 - SECT 4

4 .         Breach of contract involving injury to persons or property

                Where any person breaks a contract of service or of hiring, without giving 7 days’ notice of his intention so to do, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to endanger human life or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property, whether real or personal, to destruction or serious injury, he shall, on conviction thereof by a court of summary jurisdiction, be liable to a penalty of $300.

        [Section 4 amended: 1 and 2 Edw. VII No. 14 s. 3; No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 51 of 1992 s. 16(1); No. 78 of 1995 s. 147.]