Summary Offences Act 2005

An attachment device is a dangerous attachment device if it—

reasonably appears to be constructed or modified to cause injury to a person who attempts to interfere with the device; or

reasonably appears to be constructed or modified to cause injury to a person if another person interferes with the device; or

incorporates a dangerous substance or thing.

Also, a sleeping dragon, dragon’s den, monopole and tripod are each a dangerous attachment device.

An attachment device is a sleeping dragon if it incorporates—

an anchor point for a person to hold or to which a person’s hand can be bound or locked; and

a casing that shields the person’s hand, or the binding or lock, from being released by another person.

An attachment device is a dragon’s den if it—

incorporates 1 or more sleeping dragons or tubes large enough to pass a person’s hand through; and

reinforces the casing of the sleeping dragon or tube by adding bulk and weight.

An attachment device is a monopole if—

it relies on a long pole and support riggings to suspend a person off the ground; and

it reasonably appears to be set up to fall if another person interferes with the support riggings; and

a fall of the device would cause injury to the person suspended from it.

An attachment device is a tripod if—

the legs of the device form a tripod large enough to be used to suspend a person off the ground; and

it reasonably appears to be set up to collapse if another person interferes with the legs of the device or any support riggings for the device; and

a collapse of the device would cause injury to the person suspended from it.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that a device is a dangerous attachment device under this section regardless of whether—

persons using the device can release themselves from it; or

the device would automatically deactivate or release itself after a period of time; or

protective clothing or other shielding would prevent injury to any person.

In this section—attachment device see section 14A.dangerous substance or thing, for a dangerous attachment device, means—

any thing likely to explode, when struck or compressed, causing injury to a person; or

any thing likely to cut a person’s skin while a person is being extricated from the dangerous attachment device; or

any substance or thing that requires a person to wear protective clothing to safely handle, cut or break up the thing while a person is being extricated from the dangerous attachment device.Example for paragraph (c)—a pipe or casing made of asbestos