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Criminal Offences A-Z
Criminal Offences A-Z
The list of Offences below is design to help you find the appropriate information, as we appreciate that it may be difficult to know which area of law you should search in. Please click one of the letters above to be taken the relevant letter of the alphabet, then click the link on the right to be taken to an article about the specific offence.
A
- Abduction of a child under the age of 16 for sex
- Abduction or Detention for sex
- Abortion
- Accessibility of records for tax department
- Additional records for taxation
- Administration of drugs for sex
- Affray
- Aggravated animal cruelty
- Aggravated assault
- Aggravated burglary
- Animal cruelty
- Armed Robbery
- Arson
- Arson causing death
- Assault
- Assault with intent to rape
- Assaulting or resisting Police
B
- Being disguised with unlawful intent
- Bestiality
- Bigamy
- Blackmail
- Bomb hoaxes
- Bribery of public officials
- Burglary
C
- Careless Driving
- Causing injury intentionally
- Causing injury recklessly
- Causing serious injury recklessly
- Collecting Or Making Documents Likely To Facilitate Terrorist Acts
- Common assault
- Common assault (common law)
- Compelling sexual penetration
- Consequences of failing to comply with section 260A
- Consorting
- Conspiracy (common law)
- Contaminating goods causing public alarm or economic loss
- Contempt of court
- Control of body armour
- Control of use of dangerous articles
- Corporate criminal responsibility for offence against section 254
- Corrupting Benefits Given To, Or Received By, A Commonwealth Public Official
- Culpable driving causing death
- Cultivation of narcotic plants
- Cultivation of narcotic plants - commercial quantity
- Cultivation of narcotic plants - large commercial quantity
- Custody of False Instruments
D
- Dangerous driving
- Dangerous driving causing death or serious injury
- Dangerous goods on aircraft
- Dealing with property suspected of being proceeds of crime
- Dealing with property which subsequently becomes an instrument of crime
- Delay entry of police
- Deliberately omitting information
- Destroying Or Damaging Commonwealth Property
- Destroying or damaging property
- Destruction of evidence
- Directing The Activities Of A Terrorist Organisation
- Director Omitting Certain Entries
- Directors Cheating or Defrauding
- Directors must give information to company
- Directors Publishing False Statements
- Directors Wilfully Destroying Books
- Dishonestly cause a loss
- Dishonestly obtain a financial advantage (Centrelink Fraud)
- Display "L" Plate
- Disturbing religious worship
- Drink Driving exceed PCA (1)
- Drink Driving-S79(1) One Prior Arising From Motor Vehicle
- Drive while impaired by drugs (drug driving)
- Driving a motor vehicle when directed to stop by police
- Driving a motor vehicle when directed to stop by police
- Driving disqualified
- Driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or of any drug
- Driving while exceeding the prescribed concentration of alcohol (2)
- Driving while licence suspended under Infringements Act 2006
- Drunk in public
- Drunkards behaving in riotous or disorderly manner
- Duty of driver etc. of vehicle that is not a motor vehicle if accident occurs
- Duty of driver, etc. of motor vehicle if accident occurs
- Duty of owner of motor vehicle to give information about driver
E
- Embezzlement
- Embracery
- Endangering safe operation of an aircraft
- Endangering safety of aircraft
- Entering a level crossing when a train or tram is approaching
- Escaping from lawful custody
- Exceed PCA
- Exceed prescribed concentration of drugs
- Exceed prescribed concentration of drugs (drug driving)
- Extortion with threats to destroy property
- Extortion with threats to kill
F
- Failure of directors to call general meeting
- Failure of responsible entity to call meeting of the scheme's members
- Failure to answer bail
- Failure To Answer Questions When Attending Before The Commissioner
- Failure To Comply With Requirements Under Taxation Law
- Failure to lodge documents
- False accounting
- False imprisonment
- False Or Misleading Information
- False Pretences
- False statements
- False statements by company directors
- Falsification of documents
- Falsifying or concealing identity
- Forgery
- Forgery etc. of documents and identification marks
- Forgery etc. of documents and identification marks
- Forgery, using etc. false documents an indictable offence
- Forging prescriptions and orders for drugs of dependence
- Form of record - English language
- Frauds by officers
- Fraudulent Misappropriation
- Furnish False or misleading information (Sex Offender Registry)
G
- General duty of driver or person in charge of motor vehicle
- Getting Funds To, From Or For A Terrorist Organisation
- Giving false or misleading information to tax officers
- Going equipped for stealing
- Good faith, use of position and use of information - criminal offences
- Goods in Custody
H
I
- Importing And Exporting Border Controlled Precursors
- Importing And Exporting Commercial Quantities Of Border Controlled Drugs Or Border Controlled Plants
- Improper use of motor vehicle
- Incest
- Inclusion of false or misleading information in records
- Indecent act with a child under the age of 16
- Indecent assault
- Indemnifying surety
- Inducement to be appointed liquidator etc. of company
- Infanticide
- Intentionally causing a serious disease
- Intentionally causing serious injury
- Intentionally or recklessly causing a bushfire
- Interfere with corpse of a human being
- Interfering With Political Liberty
- Introduction of a drug of dependence into the body of another person
J
K
L
- Larceny
- Larceny as a Clerk
- Lighting of fires in the open air
- Listed company - director to notify market operator of shareholdings etc.
- Loitering near schools
- Loitering with intent to commit an indictable offence
M
- Make False Instrument
- Making false reports to police etc.
- Making false statements concerning contamination of goods
- Manslaughter
- Material personal interest - director's duty to disclose
- Membership Of A Terrorist Organisation
- Murder
N
- Negligently causing serious injury
- Notice to ASIC of share cancellation
- Notice to ASIC of share issue
O
- Obscene exposure
- Obscene, indecent, threatening language and behaviour in public
- Obstruction of Commissioner or an authorised officer
- Obstruction Of Commonwealth Public Officials
- Obtain a financial advantage by deception (Commonwealth) (common Centrelink charge)
- Obtain Benefit by Deception
- Obtain Credit by Fraud
- Obtain Money by Misleading Statements
- Obtaining drugs of dependence by false representation
- Obtaining financial advantage by deception
- Obtaining licence by false statements
- Obtaining licence etc. by false statements
- Obtaining property by deception
- Obtaining Property By Deception
- Occupier etc. permitting unlawful sexual penetration
- Offence for non-prohibited person to possess, carry or use a handgun without a licence
- Offence for non-prohibited person to possess, carry or use a longarm without a licence
- Offence for prohibited person to possess, carry or use a firearm
- Offence of serious racial vilification
- Offence to acquire, dispose of possess or carry cartridge ammunition for collections
- Offence to alter, deface or place number on engine of motor vehicle
- Offence to drive high powered motor vehicle
- Offence to harass witnesses etc.
- Offence to obstruct etc. person operating road safety camera or speed detector
- Offence to possess, carry or use an unregistered handgun
- Offence to possess, carry or use an unregistered longarm
- Offence to procure use of motor vehicle by fraud
- Offence to provide false or misleading information
- Offence to sell certain breath analysing instruments
- Offence to sell, use or possess anti-speed measuring devices
- Offences against court security
- Offences by officers of certain companies
- Offences by persons involved in management of bodies corporate
- Offences connected with explosive substances
- Offences for certain types of handguns
- Offences for failure to comply with statutory duties
- Offences for failure to comply with statutory duties by guarantor
- Offensive behaviour by a person in a motor vehicle in a declared area
- Other Acts Done In Preparation For, Or Planning, Terrorist Acts
P
- Period of retention
- Perjury
- Persistent sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16
- Persons found drunk and disorderly
- Perverting the course of justice
- Police bribery and corruption
- Possess Controlled Weapon
- Possess property reasonably suspected to be stolen
- Possessing Controlled Drugs
- Possessing Controlled Precursors
- Possessing housebreaking implements
- Possessing Marketable Quantities Of Unlawfully Imported Border Controlled Drugs Or Border Controlled Plants
- Possessing Things Connected With Terrorist Acts
- Possessing Unlawfully Imported Border Controlled Drugs Or Border Controlled Plants
- Possession of a drug of dependence
- Possession of a traffickable quantity of unregistered firearms
- Possession of child pornography
- Possession of data with intent to commit serious computer offence
- Possession of precursor chemicals
- Possession of substance etc for trafficking in a drug of dependence
- Possession of tablet press
- Posting bills and defacing property
- Probationary driver - no "P" plates
- Procurement etc. of minor for child pornography
- Procuring sexual penetration by threats or fraud
- Procuring sexual penetration of a child
- Producing, supplying or obtaining data with intent to commit serious computer offence
- Production of child pornography
- Prohibited weapons
- Providing Or Receiving Training Connected With Terrorist Acts
- Public nuisance
Q
R
- Rape
- Reckless conduct endangering life
- Reckless conduct endangering serious injury
- Recruiting For A Terrorist Organisation
- Refuse breath test - drink driving
- Refuse drug test - drug driving
- Refuse to give blood or urine sample - drink driving
- Refuse to provide further sample - drink driving
- Refuse to provide oral fluid - drink driving
- Refuse to stop
- Requirement to keep proper records
- Resisting arrest
- Riot
- Rioters demolishing buildings
- Robbery
- Rout
S
- Sabotage
- Sabotage
- Setting fire to aircraft
- Setting traps to kill
- Sex Offender Registry - Failing to comply with reporting conditions
- Sexual offences - persons with a cognitive impairment by providers of special programs
- Sexual offences against persons with a cognitive impairment by Doctors etc
- Sexual penetration of 16 or 17 year old child
- Sexual penetration of a child under the age of 16
- Sexual Servitude
- Social Security Fraud
- Speed trials
- Stalking
- Supply of drug of dependence to a child
- Supplying Drugs To Children
- Suppression of documents
T
- Taking or use vehicle without owner's consent
- Tampering or interfering with motor vehicle without just cause or excuse
- Tax evasion
- Terrorist Acts
- Theft
- Theft
- Threatening injury to prevent arrest
- Threatening to contaminate goods
- Threats to destroy or damage property
- Threats to inflict serious injury
- Threats to kill
- Threats to sabotage
- Threats to safety of aircraft
- Trafficking in a drug of dependence
- Trafficking in a drug of dependence to a child
- Trafficking in a drug or drugs of dependence - commercial quantity
- Trafficking in a drug or drugs of dependence - large commercial quantity
U
- Unauthorised access to or modification of restricted data
- Unauthorised Access, Modification Or Impairment With Intent To Commit A Serious Offence
- Unauthorised impairment of data held in computer disk, credit card or other device
- Unauthorised impairment of electronic communication
- Unauthorised Impairment Of Electronic Communication
- Unauthorised modification of data to cause impairment
- Unauthorised Modification Of Data To Cause Impairment
- Unlawful assembly
- Unlawful oaths to commit treason, murder etc.
- Unlawfully taking control of an aircraft
- Unlicensed driving
- Use of a drug of dependence
- Using firearm to resist arrest
- Using of firearms in the commission of offences
