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Criminal Code Act 1924
79Forcible entry and detainer
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79 Forcible entry and detainer
(1) Any person who without lawful authority enters in a violent manner, whether by actual force or by such a show of force as to deter opposition, any lands or tenements in the peaceable possession of another, for the purpose of taking possession thereof, whether or not he has a right of entry thereto, is guilty of a crime.
Charge: Forcible entry.
(2) Any person who having wrongfully entered any lands or tenements detains the same in manner aforesaid is guilty of a crime.
Charge: Forcible detainer.