Section 93C — Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)

(1) A person who uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another and whose conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his or her personal safety is guilty of affray and liable to imprisonment for 10 years.
(2) If 2 or more persons use or threaten the unlawful violence, it is the conduct of them taken together that must be considered for the purposes of subsection (1).
(3) For the purposes of this section, a threat cannot be made by the use of words alone.
(4) No person of reasonable firmness need actually be, or be likely to be, present at the scene.
(5) Affray may be committed in private as well as in public places.

Related sections

• s 93AC — Child forced marriage
• s 93A — Definition
• s 93B — Riot
• s 93D — Mental element under sections 93B and 93C
• s 93F — Interpretation
• s 93FA — Possession, supply or making of explosives

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