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Defence Force Discipline Act 1982
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25 Assaulting a superior officer
(a) the member assaults a person; and
(b) that person is a superior officer.
(3) It is a defence if the member proves that he or she neither knew, nor could reasonably be expected to have known, that the person against whom the offence is alleged to have been committed was a superior officer.
Note: The defendant bears a legal burden in relation to the matter in subsection (3). See section 13.4 of the Criminal Code.