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

104 SS. 324-328~ CRIMINAL CODE
~~c~~§~ries. Any person who, being charged with
the duty of providing for another the necessaries of life, without lawful
excuse fails to do so, whereby the life of that other person is or is likely
to be endangered or his health is or is likely to be permanently injured,
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for three years.
erhg Life or ~e~~~~ of Ap S. Any person
who, being charged as a master or mistress with the duty of providing
necessary food, clothing, or lodging, for a servant or apprentice under the
age of sixteen years, unlawfully fails to perform that duty, or in any
other manner does any bodily harm or causes any bodily harm to be done
to such servant or apprentice, whereby, in either case, the life of such
servant or apprentice is or is likely to be endangered, or his health is or
is likely to be permanently injured, is guilty of a misdemeanour and
is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years.
32 e. Any person who unlaw-
fully abandons or exposes a child under the age of two years, whereby
the life of such child is or is likely to be endangered, or his health is or
is likely to be permanently injured, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is
liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years.
s. Any person who sets or places any spring-gun,
man-trap, or other engine calculated to destroy human life or to inflict
grievous bodily harm, or causes any such thing to be set or placed,
in any place with the intent that it may kill or inflict grievous bodily harm
upon a trespasser or other person coming in contact with it, or sets or
places any such thing in any such place and in any such manner that it is
likely to cause any such result, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable
to imprisonment with hard labour for three years.
Any person who knowingly permits any such spring-gun, man-trap,
or other engine, which has been set or placed by another person in any
such place and in any such manner that it is likely to cause any such
result, to continue so set or placed in any place which is then in, or
afterwards comes into, his possession or occupation, is deemed to have
set and placed the gun, trap, or engine, with the intent aforesaid.
This section does not make it unlawful to set any gin or trap such
as is usually set for the purpose of destroying vermin; or to set any
spring-gun, man-trap, or engine, at night in a dwelling-house for the
protection of the dwelling-house.
arm. Any person who unlawfully does any
act, or omits to do any act which it is his duty to do, by which act or
omission bodily harm is actually caused to any person, is guilty of a
misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for two
years.
The offender may be arrested without warrant.
As amended by Act of 1948, 12 Geo. 6 No. 48, s. 6.
riving of a Motor Ve de, Any person who drives a
motor vehicle on a road or in a public place dangerously is guilty of a
misdemeanour and is liable to a fine of two thousand dollars or to
imprisonment with hard labour for two years or to both such fine and