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

CRIMINAL CODB SS. 358-361 113
awfnl C~st~dly of Insane Person:Any person who detains or
assumes the custody of an insane person contrary to the provisions of the
laws relating to insane persons is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable
to imprisonment for two years.
359. Threats. Any person who threatens to do any injury, or cause any
detriment, of any kind to another with intent to prevent or hinder that
other person from doing any act which he is lawfully entitled to do, or
with intent to compel him to do any act which he is lawfully entitled to
abstain from doing, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprison-
ment for one year or to a fine of four hundred dollars.
As amended by Act of 1961, 10 Eh. 2 No. 11, s. 12.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.
CHAPTER XXXIV-OFFENCES RELATING
RIGHTS
TO MARRIAGE AND PARENTAL
AND DUTIES
360, y. Any person whoeing
married, goes through the form of marriage with any
other person during the life of his or her wife or husband;
or
(2) Goes through the form of marriage with any person whom
he or she knows to be married;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisoIi~ent with hard labour for
seven years.
It is a defence to a charge of either of the offences defined in this
section to prove that at the time of committing the alleged offence the
wife or husband of the person already married had been continually absent
from him or her for the space of seven years then last past, unless it is
shown that the accused person knew that such wife or husband was living
within that time.
The wife or husband as the case may be of the accused person shall
be a competent witness for the prosecution or defence with or without the
consent of such accused person, but shall not be a compellable witness
against such accused person.
As amended by Act of 1943, 7 Geo. 6 No. 14, s. 14.
arriage. Any person who-
( 1 ) Celebrates, or attempts or professes to celebrate, the marriage
of any person who, to his knowledge, is under the age of
eighteen years, and is not a widower or widow, without
the written consent of some person authorised by law to give
such consent, or with a written consent which, to his know-
ledge, is not given by a person authorised by law to give it;
or
(2) Celebrates, or attempts or professes to celebrate, any marriage
contrary to the provisions of the laws relating to the
solemnization of marriage; or
(3) Celebrates, or attempts or professes to celebrate, any marriage
in any case in which any provision of those laws has not
been complied with, knowing that it has not been complied
with; or