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Criminal Code Act 1983
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50 Definitions
act of terrorism means the use or threatened use of violence:
(a) to procure or attempt to procure:
(i) the alteration of;
(ii) the cessation of; or
(iii) the doing of,
any matter or thing established by a law of, or within the
competence or power of, a legally constituted government or
other political body (whether or not legally constituted) in the
Territory, the Commonwealth or any other place;
(b) for the purpose of putting the public or a section of the public
in fear; or
(c) for the purpose of preventing or dissuading the public or a
section of the public from carrying out, either generally or at a
particular place, an activity it is entitled to carry out.
organization means an association, society or confederacy.
unlawful organization means an organization that uses, threatens
to use or advocates the use of unlawful violence in the Territory to
achieve its ends.
violence means violence of a kind that causes, or is likely to cause,
the death of, or serious harm to, a person.