Summary Offences Act 1981
4Offensive behaviour or language
(1)Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000 who,—
(a)in or within view of any public place, behaves in an offensive or disorderly manner; or
(b)in any public place, addresses any words to any person intending to threaten, alarm, insult, or offend that person; or
(c)in or within hearing of a public place,—
(i)uses any threatening or insulting words and is reckless whether any person is alarmed or insulted by those words; or
(ii)addresses any indecent or obscene words to any person.
(2)Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding $500 who, in or within hearing of any public place, uses any indecent or obscene words.
(3)In determining for the purposes of a prosecution under this section whether any words were indecent or obscene, the court shall have regard to all the circumstances pertaining at the material time, including whether the defendant had reasonable grounds for believing that the person to whom the words were addressed, or any person by whom they might be overheard, would not be offended.作者: AMICUS_LAW 时间: 2013-3-15 12:37:51