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

CRIMINAL CODE §S. 408~-410 127
is section applies without prejudice to any provision of any
other Act relating to the unlawful use or possession of motor vehicles,
essels save that an offender shall not be liable to be convicted
this section and such other provision in respect of any one
and the same unlawful use or possession of any motor vehicle, aircraft or
vessel*
(3) In this section the term “vessel” means every kind of vessel
designed for use on or in water, not propelled exclusively by oars.
Inserted by Act of 1957, 6 Hiz. 2 No. 1, s. 2; substibuted by Act of 1975,
No. 27, s. 18.
A then, if the age of the accused person at the time of the
mission of the offence was in the opinion of the justices
welve years, and if-
(i) the age of the accused person at the time of the alleged
commission of the offence did not in the opinion of the
justices exceed seventeen years; or
(ii) the accused person admits that he is guilty of the offence
and it appears to the justices that the nature of the offence
is such that the offender may be adequately punishcd upon
summary conviction,
ay deal with the charge summarily.
der is liable upon summary conviction to a penalty of
one thousand dollars or imprisonment with hard labour for two years.
(2) A prosecution for an offence specified in subsection (1) in
order to the summary conviction of the accused person may be brought
notwithstanding that more than one year has elapsed since the offence
was ~ o ~ ~ ~ ~ t e d .
A complaint for an offence specified in subsection (1) in
the summary conviction of the accused person may with the
f the accused person also be heard and determined at a place
for holding Magistrates Courts within the Magistrates Courts
which the accused person was arrested or served with the
s u ~ ~ ~ ~ s .
(4) The summary jurisdict~on conferred by this section shall be
e the manner and be subject to the conditions prescribed by
S with respect to the summary trial and punishment of offenders
who may be summarily convicted of indictable offences under the
pro~i~ions of that section.
erted ’byt cfSof 1976, No. 25, S. 5.
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CHAPTER WXXVBIP-STEALING WITH VIOLENCE : EXTORTION
bay. Any person who steals anything, and, at or
immediately after the time of stealing it, uses or
threatens to use actual violence to any person or property in order to
obtain the thing stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to its being
stolen, is said to be guilty of robbery.
s. Any arm which is loaded in the barrel or chamber
with any explosive substance, and with any solid substance capable of
being projected, is deemed to be loaded arms, although an attempt to
discharge the same may fa2 from want of proper appliances or from any
other cause.
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