124AAssociation with individuals convicted of serious criminal offences prohibited

124A Association with individuals convicted of serious criminal offences prohibited

S. 124A(1) amended by No. 37/2024 s. 6(1)(a).

(1) An individual who has been served an unlawful association notice must not associate with an individual specified in that notice (the specified individual).

S. 124A (1)(a)(b) repealed by No. 37/2024 s. 6(1)(b).

Penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years or 360 penalty units or both.

S. 124A(3) amended by No. 37/2024 s. 6(2).

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply if the individual served an unlawful association notice associates with the specified individual and—

(a) those individuals are family members; and

(b) those individuals associate for a purpose that is not an ulterior purpose.

S. 124A(4) amended by No. 37/2024 s. 6(2).

(4) Subsection (1) does not apply if the individual served an unlawful association notice associates with the specified individual in any of the following ways and that association is not for an ulterior purpose—

(a) in the course of lawful employment or the lawful operation of a business;

(b) in the course of participating in education or vocational training;

S. 124A(4)(ba) inserted by No. 37/2024 s. 9(1).

(ba) in the course of doing any of the following while acting as a volunteer—

(i) providing services or performing work in respect of the response to or mitigation of emergencies;

(ii) otherwise performing a role or discharging a responsibility of an agency in accordance with the state emergency management plan;

(iii) training to do a thing, or practising doing a thing, referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii);

(iv) being on active standby duty;

S. 124A(4)(bb) inserted by No. 37/2024 s. 9(1).

(bb) travelling to or from a place for the purpose of doing a thing referred to in paragraph (ba);

S. 124A(4)(c) amended by No. 37/2024 s. 10(1).

(c) while either or both of them are being provided a health service (including a service specified in subsection (4A) that is also a health service);

S. 124A(4)(ca) inserted by No. 37/2024 s. 10(2).

(ca) while either or both of them are being provided a service specified in subsection (4A);

(d) while either or both of them are being provided legal advice;

(e) while in lawful custody or in the course of complying with an order, requirement or direction imposed by—

(i) a court; or

(ii) the Adult Parole Board; or