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Crimes Act 1961

Crimes against the person - Assaults and injuries to the person

202C: Assault with weapon

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“Using an object to hurt someone or having something that looks like it might be used to hurt someone during an attack is against the law.”

If you attack someone using an object as a weapon, you can go to prison for up to 5 years. This also applies if you have an object with you while attacking someone, and it looks like you intend to use it as a weapon. The law considers both of these actions as assault with a weapon.

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Part 8 Crimes against the person
Assaults and injuries to the person

202CAssault with weapon

  1. Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years who,—

  2. in assaulting any person, uses any thing as a weapon; or
    1. while assaulting any person, has any thing with him or her in circumstances that prima facie show an intention to use it as a weapon.

      1. Repealed
      Notes
      • Section 202C: inserted, on , by section 5 of the Crimes Amendment Act (No 2) 1986 (1986 No 71).
      • Section 202C(2): repealed, on , by section 164(b) of the Sentencing Act 2002 (2002 No 9).