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

CRIMINAL CODE ss. 416,417 129
with threats of any injury or detriment of any kind to be
caused to any person, either by the offender or any other
person, if the demand is not complied with;
is guilty of a crime and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for
fourteen years.
The term “writing” shall include any gramophone record, wire, tape,
or other thing by which words or sounds are recorded and from which they
are capable of being reproduced.
Substituted by Act of 1961, 163 Elk. 2 No. 11, s. 15; as amended by Act of
1976, No. 29, s. 6.
any person-
reads. Any person who, with intent to
y property or benefit or the performance of services from
(1) Accuses or threatens to accuse any person of committing
any indictable offence, or of offering or making any solicita-
tion or thxeat to any person as an inducement to commit or
permit the commission of any indictable offence; or
(2) Threatens that any person shall be accused by any other
person of any indictable ogence or of any such act; or
(3) Knowing the contents of the writing, causes any person to
receive any writing containing any such accusation or threat
as aforesaid;
is guilty of a crime.
If thc accusation or threat of accusaticn is of-
(a) An offence for which the ~ ~ i s of ~ i~priso~e~~
e ~ t for
life may be inflicted; or
(b) Any of the offences defined in Chapter XXHI, or an attempt
to commit any of such offences; or
(c) An assault with intent to have carnal knowledge of any
person against the order of nature, OX an uiilawf~l and
indecent assault upon a male person; or
(d) An attempt to commit the crime of rape, or an assault with
intent to commit the crime of rape, or an unlawful and
indecent assault upon a woman or girl; or
(e) A solicitation or threat offered or made to any person as an
inducement to commit or permit the commission of any of
the offences aforesaid;
nder is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for fourteen years,
with or without solitary confinement.
In any other case the offender is liable to prisonm me^^ with bard
labour for three years.
It is immaterial whether the person accused or threatened to be
accused has or has not committed the offence or act of which he is
accused or threatened to be accused.
As amended by Act of 1922, 13 Geo. 5 No. 2, S. 3 (xv); Act of 1976, No.
25, s. 7.
S. Any person who,
with intent to defraud, and by means of any unlawful violence to, or
restraint of, the person of another, or by means of any threat of violence
or restraint to be used to the person of another, or by means of accusing
or threatening to accuse any person of committing any indictable offence,