South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts49—Disrupting security or order
(1) A prisoner must
not take part in an unlawful assembly.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years.
(2) A prisoner must
not take part in a riot or mutiny.
Maximum penalty:
(a) if,
during the riot or mutiny, the prisoner wilfully and unlawfully damages or
destroys, or attempts to damage or destroy, property that is part of a
correctional institution and the security of the correctional institution is
endangered by the act—imprisonment for 15 years; or
(b) if,
during the riot or mutiny, the prisoner—
(i)
demands something be done or not be done with threats of
injury or detriment to any person or property; or
(ii)
escapes or attempts to escape from lawful custody, or
helps another prisoner to escape or attempt to escape from lawful custody,
imprisonment for 10 years; or
(c) if,
during the riot or mutiny, the prisoner wilfully and unlawfully damages or
destroys, or attempts to damage or destroy, any property—imprisonment
for 7 years; or
(d) in
any other case—imprisonment for 4 years.
(3) In this
section—
"mutiny" means 3 or more prisoners collectively challenging authority
under this Act, with intent to subvert the authority, if the security of the
correctional institution is endangered;
"riot" means an unlawful assembly that has begun to act in so tumultuous a way
as to disturb the peace;
"unlawful assembly" means 3 or more prisoners—
(a)
assembled with intent to carry out a common purpose and there are reasonable
grounds to believe the prisoners will—
(i)
tumultuously disturb the peace; or
(ii)
provoke other prisoners to tumultuously disturb the
peace; or
(b) who,
having assembled with intent to carry out a common purpose, whether or not the
assembly was lawful, conduct themselves in a way that there are reasonable
grounds to believe the prisoners will—
(i)
tumultuously disturb the peace; or
(ii)
provoke other prisoners to tumultuously disturb the
peace.