5Leaving gate open

5 Leaving gate open

5 Leaving gate open

(1) A person who enters into or upon the inclosed lands of any other person and wilfully or negligently leaves open, removes or disables a gate is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty—15 penalty units.

(2) A person who enters into or upon any road lawfully inclosed within the lands of any other person through a gate (not being a public gate within the meaning of the Roads Act 1993) and wilfully or negligently leaves open, removes or disables the gate is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty—15 penalty units.

(3) In this section—

gate includes a cattle grid or any moveable thing used to inclose land including a slip panel or moveable fence.

s 5: Am 1939 No 9, sec 2 (c); 1964 No 14, sec 2 (b); 1987 No 39, Sch 1 (3); 1989 No 199, Sch 1 (3); 1993 No 33, Sch 1; 1993 No 47, Sch 1. Subst 2019 No 15, Sch 2[5].