22Damaging Museum material and property

22 Damaging Museum material and property

(1) A person commits an offence if the person: (a) is on or in Museum premises; and (b) touches or interferes with material; and (c) the material is of a kind mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of Museum material in section 5.

Penalty: 5 penalty units.

(2) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person is on or in Museum premises; and (b) the person engages in conduct; and (c) the conduct damages Museum material.

Penalty: 5 penalty units.

(3) Recklessness or negligence is the fault element for the result mentioned in paragraph (2)(c). (4) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person: (i) attaches an article to a building, structure, wall or fence; or (ii) writes on a building, structure, fixture, fitting, wall or fence; and (b) either: (i) the building or structure is Museum premises; or (ii) the wall, fence, fixture or fitting is on land that is Museum premises.

Penalty: 5 penalty units.

(5) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person engages in conduct; and (b) the conduct damages a building, structure, fixture, fitting, wall, fence, plant or garden; and (c) either: (i) the building or structure is Museum premises; or (ii) the fixture, fitting, wall, fence, plant or garden is on land that is Museum premises.

Penalty: 5 penalty units.

(6) Recklessness or negligence is the fault element for the result mentioned in paragraph (5)(b). (7) This section does not limit section 132.8A of the Criminal Code (about damaging or destroying Commonwealth property).