Section 37 — Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)

(1A) A person is guilty of an offence if the person intentionally chokes, suffocates or strangles another person without the other person’s consent.
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if the person—
(a) intentionally chokes, suffocates or strangles another person so as to render the other person unconscious, insensible or incapable of resistance, and
(b) is reckless as to rendering the other person unconscious, insensible or incapable of resistance.
(2) A person is guilty of an offence if the person—
(a) chokes, suffocates or strangles another person so as to render the other person unconscious, insensible or incapable of resistance, and
(b) does so with the intention of enabling himself or herself to commit, or assisting any other person to commit, another indictable offence.
(3) In this section—
another indictable offence means an indictable offence other than an offence against this section.

Related sections

• s 33B — Use or possession of weapon to resist arrest etc
• s 35 — Reckless grievous bodily harm or wounding
• s 35A — Causing dog to inflict grievous bodily harm or actual bodily harm
• s 38 — Using intoxicating substance to commit an indictable offence
• s 38A — Spiking drink or food
• s 39 — Using poison etc to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm

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