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Crimes Act 1961
Version as at
6 November 2021
penis includes a surgically constructed or reconstructed organ analogous to a
naturally occurring penis (whether the person concerned is male, female, or of
indeterminate sex)
person, owner, and other words and expressions of the like kind, include the
Crown and any public body or local authority, and any board, society, or com‐
pany, and any other body of persons, whether incorporated or not, and the
inhabitants of the district of any local authority, in relation to such acts and
things as it or they are capable of doing or owning
prison manager means the manager of a prison
property includes real and personal property, and any estate or interest in any
real or personal property, money, electricity, and any debt, and any thing in
action, and any other right or interest
prosecutor means—
(a)
a Crown Solicitor:
(b)
in relation to a Crown prosecution, the Attorney-General:
(c)
in relation to a private prosecution, the private prosecutor
protected from criminal responsibility means not liable to any proceedings
except a civil proceeding
Registrar—
(a)
for the purposes of Part 12, means any Registrar of the trial court; and
includes any Deputy Registrar of that court:
(b)
for any other purpose, means any Registrar of the High Court or of the
District Court, as the case may require; and includes any Deputy
Registrar
serious violent offence means any offence—
(a)
that is punishable by a period of imprisonment for a term of 7 years or
more; and
(b)
where the conduct constituting the offence involves—
(i)
loss of a person’s life or serious risk of loss of a person’s life; or
(ii)
serious injury to a person or serious risk of serious injury to a per‐
son; or
(iii)
serious damage to property in circumstances endangering the
physical safety of any person; or
(iv)
perverting the course of justice, where the purpose of the conduct
is to prevent, seriously hinder, or seriously obstruct the detection,
investigation, or prosecution of any offence—
(A)
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that is punishable by a period of imprisonment for a term of
7 years or more; and