Section 184 – Offence of encouraging or assisting serious self-harm
56. This section creates a new communications offence of encouraging or assisting serious self-harm[footnote 2]. A person commits an offence if they do a relevant act capable of encouraging or assisting the serious self-harm of another person; and their act was intended to encourage or assist the serious self-harm of another person. Doing a relevant act includes, communicating in-person or sending, transmitting, or publishing a communication by electronic means, or showing a person such communication, or publishing material by other means. It also includes sending, giving, showing, or making available to a person published material or any form of correspondence, and the sending, giving or making available an item with stored electronic data.