Crimes Act 1961

Threatening, conspiring, and attempting to commit offences

308: Threatening acts in relation to dwellinghouses and persons in dwellinghouses

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"Threatening someone or their home is against the law"

If you try to scare or annoy someone on purpose, you can get in trouble with the law. You might break or damage someone's house, or threaten to do so. You can also get in trouble if you try to scare someone who is in their house by being threatening or trying to alarm them.

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Part 11Threatening, conspiring, and attempting to commit offences

308Threatening acts in relation to dwellinghouses and persons in dwellinghouses

  1. Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years who, with intent to intimidate or annoy any person,—

  2. breaks or damages or threatens to break or damage any dwellinghouse; or
    1. by threatening behaviour, alarms or attempts to alarm any person in a dwellinghouse.
      Compare
      • 1908 No 32 ss 344, 345
      Notes
      • Section 308 heading: replaced, on , by section 4(1) of the Criminal Activity Intervention Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 7).
      • Section 308(b): replaced, on , by section 4(2) of the Criminal Activity Intervention Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 7).