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Queensland
Criminal Code (Protecting
School Students and Members
of Staff From Assaults)
Amendment Bill 2007
Queensland
Criminal Code (Protecting School
Students and Members of Staff From
Assaults) Amendment Bill 2007
Contents
Page
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Code amended. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Insertion of new ch 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 31 Assaults, stalking, harassment or intimidation
at school premises
346A Definitions for ch 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
346B Assaults, stalking, harassment and intimidation at
school premises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2007
A Bill
for
An Act to amend the Criminal Code
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Members of Staff From Assaults) Amendment Bill 2007
The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
Clause 1 Short title 2
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code (Protecting 3
School Students and Members of Staff From Assaults) 4
Amendment Act 2007. 5
Clause 2 Code amended 6
This Act amends the Criminal Code. 7
Clause 3 Insertion of new ch 31 8
After section 346-- 9
insert-- 10
`Chapter 31 Assaults, stalking, 11
harassment or intimidation 12
at school premises 13
`346A Definitions for ch 31 14
`(1) In this chapter-- 15
member of staff of a school includes a person who performs 16
voluntary work for the school. 17
school means-- 18
(a) an infants school, primary school or secondary school 19
(however described); or 20
(b) a child care facility for children under school age. 21
school premises includes parks and other community 22
premises that are used by a school (but only while they are 23
being used for the purposes of the school). 24
school student includes a child attending a child care facility. 25
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Members of Staff From Assaults) Amendment Bill 2007
stalk, a person, includes following the person about or 1
watching, or frequenting in the vicinity of, or an approach to, 2
the person's place of residence, business or work or any place 3
that the person frequents for the purpose of social or leisure 4
activity. 5
`(2) For this chapter, a school student or member of staff of a 6
school is taken to be attending a school-- 7
(a) while the student or member of staff is on school 8
premises for the purposes of school work or duty (even 9
if not engaged in school work or duty at the time); or 10
(b) while the student or member of staff is on school 11
premises for the purposes of before school or after 12
school child care; or 13
(c) while entering or leaving school premises in connection 14
with school work or duty or before school or after 15
school care. 16
`346B Assaults, stalking, harassment and intimidation at 17
school premises 18
`(1) A person who assaults, stalks, harasses or intimidates a school 19
student or member of staff of a school while the student or 20
member of staff is attending a school, although no actual 21
bodily harm is done, is liable to imprisonment for 5 years. 22
`(2) A person who assaults a school student or member of staff of 23
a school while the student or member of staff is attending a 24
school and by the assault does actual bodily harm, is liable to 25
imprisonment for 10 years. 26
`(3) A person who unlawfully, and with intent to injure any other 27
person, by any means-- 28
(a) wounds a school student or member of staff of a school; 29
or 30
(b) does grievous bodily harm to a school student or 31
member of staff of a school; 32
while the student or member of staff is attending a school, is 33
liable to imprisonment for 14 years. 34
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Members of Staff From Assaults) Amendment Bill 2007
`(4) A person who enters school premises with intent to commit an 1
offence under another provision of this section is liable to 2
imprisonment for 5 years. 3
`(5) Nothing in subsection (1) applies to any reasonable 4
disciplinary action taken by a member of staff of a school 5
against a school student.'. 6
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