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

CRIMINAL CODE
SS. 424~438 133
427A* ws. ( 1) Any person
who obtains fro ttel, money or valuable security
by passing a cheque that is not paid on presentation for payment is
guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour
for two years.
(2) It is a defence to a charge of an offence defined in his section
to prove that the accused person-
(a) had reasonable grounds for believing that the cheque would
be paid in full on presentation fox payment; and
(b) had no intent to defraud.
(3) The fact that at the time when the cheque was passed there
were some funds to the credit of the account on which the cheque was
drawn is not of itself a defence to a charge of an offence d
this section.
(4) A prosecution for an offeiice defined in this section shall not be
commmced without the consent of a Crown Law Officer.
Inserted by Act of 1975, No. 27, s. 17.
wi~full~ false promise or partly by a false pretence and partly by a wilfully
false promise, and with intent to defraud, induces any person to execute,
make, accept, indorse, alter, cx destroy, the whole or any part of any
valuable security, or to write, impress, or affix, any name or seal upon
or to any paper or parchment, in order that it may be alterwards made
or converted into or used or dealt with as il valuable security, is guilty of
a crime and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years.
The offender cannot be arrested without warrant unless found committing
the offence.
Substituted by Act of 1961, 10 Eliz. 2 No. 11, s. 18.
e Any person who by means of army fraudul~n~ trick or
from any other person anyth~n~ capable of being stolen,
or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable of
being stolen, ox to pay or deliver lo any person any money or goods,
m of money or greater quantity of goods than he would
ivered but for such trick or device, is guilty of a miss
liable to imprisonment with hard labour for two years.
A person found com~itt~ng the offence may be arrested without
warrant.
n who conspires with another by
ct the market price of anything
publicly sold, or to defraud the public, or any person, whether a particular
person or not, or to extort any property from any person, is guilty of a
crime, and is liable to ~p~isonment with hard labour for seven years.
As amended by Act of 1943, 7 @eo. 6 No. 14, s. 17.
Any person who, being
a seller or mortgagor of any property, or being the solicitor or agent of
any such seller or mortgagor, with intent to induce the purchaser or
mortgagee to accept the title offcred or produced to him, and with intent
to defraud-
(1) Conceals from the purchaser or mortgagee any insmrnent
material to the title, or any ~ nc~~~rance; or