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308A: Discharging firearm to intimidate
or “It's against the law to fire a gun to scare people, and you could go to jail for up to 5 years if you do this.”

You could also call this:

“It's against the law to team up with others to stop people from collecting money that the government is allowed to ask for.”

If you work with someone else to stop rates or taxes from being collected, you could go to prison. This applies when you use force or try to scare people to prevent the collection of rates or taxes that are allowed by law. The longest time you could spend in prison for doing this is 2 years. Remember, rates and taxes are money that the government or local councils are legally allowed to collect from people.

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Next up: 310: Conspiring to commit offence

or “If you plan with someone to break the law, you can get in trouble, even if you don't actually do it.”

Part 11 Threatening, conspiring, and attempting to commit offences

309Conspiring to prevent collection of rates or taxes

  1. Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years who conspires with any other person by force or intimidation to prevent the collection of any rates or taxes the levying and collection of which is authorised by law.

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  • 1908 No 32 s 346