Summary of the Act
4.The Act is in seven sections.
5.Section 1 establishes the offence of assaulting, threatening or abusing a retail worker. Section 2 further defines behaviour that constitutes threatening or abusing a retail worker.
6.Section 3 provides for the offence to be aggravated where the offending behaviour occurred because the retail worker was enforcing a statutory age restriction. Section 4 defines “retail worker” and section 5 defines “retail premises” and “retail work”. Sections 6 and 7 deal with commencement and the Act’s short title.
