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Criminal Code Act 1983
174BDanger of death or serious harm
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174B Danger of death or serious harm
(1) For this Division, conduct that may give rise to a danger of death or
serious harm includes exposing a person to the risk of catching a
disease that may give rise to a danger of death or serious harm.
(2) For this Division, conduct gives rise to a danger of death or serious
harm if it is ordinarily capable of creating a real, and not merely a
theoretical, danger of death or serious harm.
(3) Conduct may give rise to a danger of death or serious harm
whatever the statistical or arithmetical calculation of the degree of
risk of death or serious harm involved.
(4) In the prosecution of an offence against Subdivision 2, it is not
necessary to prove that a person was actually placed in danger of
death or serious harm by the conduct concerned.