Australia
Australian Capital Territory
The offence is created by section 24(1) of the Crimes Act 1900.
New South Wales
The offence is created by section 59(1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (a different statute of the same name).
South Australia
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm was formerly an offence under section 40 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935, but has been abolished and replaced with a similar offence (see below).
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