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Criminal Code Act 1983
224Damaging or interfering with property as trespasser
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224 Damaging or interfering with property as trespasser
(a) the person intentionally enters a building; and
(b) the person is a trespasser and the person is reckless in
(c) the person intentionally damages or otherwise interferes with
the building or any property in the building.
(2) For this section, it is immaterial whether the damage or
interference:
(a) is of a permanent nature; or
(b) results in any monetary loss.
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damage includes the following:
(a) destroying the building or property;
(b) defacing the building or property;
(c) for a document – obliterating or rendering illegible the whole or
any part of the document;
(d) for an animal – harming or killing the animal;
(e) for a plant or other thing forming part of land – severing it from
the land.