Littering causing injury or endangering health
31B Littering causing injury or endangering health
A person commits an offence if the person leaves, throws, deposits or abandons litter in, onto or from a public place or vacant land and the litter is likely to cause injury to, or endanger the health of, a person using the public place or vacant land.
Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units.
It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against clause (1) if the defendant has a reasonable excuse.
Note for clause (2)
The defendant has an evidential burden in relation to the matters mentioned (see section
43BU of the Criminal Code).
A person who is prosecuted, or served an infringement notice, for an offence against clause (1) is not liable to be prosecuted, or served an infringement notice, for an offence against by-law 31A in respect of the same litter.
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