Section 93B — Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)

(1) Where 12 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his or her personal safety, each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot and liable to imprisonment for 15 years.
(2) It is immaterial whether or not the 12 or more persons use or threaten unlawful violence simultaneously.
(3) The common purpose may be inferred from conduct.
(4) No person of reasonable firmness need actually be, or be likely to be, present at the scene.
(5) Riot may be committed in private as well as in public places.

Related sections

• s 93AB — Slavery, servitude and child forced labour
• s 93AC — Child forced marriage
• s 93A — Definition
• s 93C — Affray
• s 93D — Mental element under sections 93B and 93C
• s 93F — Interpretation

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