23Damaging Museum material and property

23 Damaging Museum material and property

(1) A person commits an offence if the person: (a) is on or in any controlled Museum premises; and (b) touches or interferes with material of a kind mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of Museum material.

Penalty: 5 penalty units.

(2) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person is on or in any controlled Museum premises; and (b) the person engages in conduct; and (c) the conduct damages Museum material.

Penalty: 5 penalty units.

(3) Recklessness or negligence is the fault element for the result mentioned in paragraph (2)(c). (4) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person: (i) attaches an article to a building, structure, vessel, wall or fence; or (ii) writes on a building, structure, vessel, fixture, fitting, wall or fence; and (b) either: (i) the building, structure or vessel is Museum premises; or (ii) the wall, fence, fixture or fitting is on land or water that is Museum premises.

Penalty: 5 penalty units.

(5) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person engages in conduct; and (b) the conduct damages a building, structure, vessel, fixture, fitting, wall, fence, plant or garden; and (c) either: (i) the building, structure or vessel is Museum premises; or (ii) the fixture, fitting, wall, fence, plant or garden is on land or water that is Museum premises.

Penalty: 5 penalty units.

(6) Recklessness or negligence is the fault element for the result mentioned in paragraph (5)(b). (7) This section does not limit section 132.8A of the Criminal Code (about damaging or destroying Commonwealth property).