The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

102 317A,318 CRIMINAL CODE
(2) Unlawfully attempts in any manner to strike any person
with any kind of projectile; or
(3) Unlawfully causes any explosive substance to explode; or
(4) Sends or delivers any explosive substance or other dangerous
or noxious thing to any person; or
(5) Causes any such substance or thing to be taken or received
by any person; or
(6) Puts any corrosive fluid or any destructive or explosive substance
in any place; or
(7) Unlawfully casts or throws any such fluid or substance at or
upon any person, or otherwise applies any such fluid or
substance to the person of any person;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to im~riso~ent with hard labour for
life, with or without solitary confinement.
As amended by the Criminal Code Correction of Errors Act of 1900, 64
Vie. No. 7, s. 1.
317~. Taking or sen s an Aircraft. Any person
who-
(a) Carries or places dangerous goods on board an aircraft;
(b) Delivers dangerous goods to another person for the purpose
of such goods being placed on board an aircraft; or
(c) Has dangerous goods in his possession on board an aircraft;
is guilty of a crime and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for
seven years.
It is a defence to a charge of any offence defined in this section to
prove that the act constituting the offence was lawfully consented to by
the owner or operator of the aircraft with knowledge by him of the nature
of the goods concerned or that the act was done by authority or
permission of or under a law of the Commonwealth or of the State.
For the purposes of this section the term “dangerous goods”
means-
(i) Firearms, ammunition, weapons and explosive substances;
and
(ii) Substances and things which by reason of their nature or
condition may endanger the safety of an aircraft or of a
person on board an aircraft.
Inserted by Act of 1964, No. 14, s. 4.
318. ~ ~ Escape efrom Wreck. v Any ~ person who ~ unlawfully- ~ ~ ~ ~
(1) Prevents or obstructs any person who is on board of or is
escaping from a vessel which is in distress or wrecked or cast
ashore, in his endeavours to save his life; or
(2) Obstructs any person in his endeavours to save the life of any
person so situated;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for
life, with or without solitary confinement.