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

1134 SS. 432-434 CRIMINAL CODE
(2) Falsifies any pedigree on which the title depends or may
depend;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for two years.
432, ~ r to Exercise ~ Wit ~ ~ ~ s. Any ~ person who ~ g
pretends to exercise or use any
Ceryl enchantment,
or conjuration, or undertakes to tell fortunes, or pretends from his skill
or knowledge in any occult science to discover where or in what manner
anything supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found, is guilty of
earnour, and is liable to i~~prisonme~t with hard labour for one
year.
CHA~IJIER XLI-RECEIVING PROPERTY STOLEN OR FRATJDUEENTkU
OBTAINED AND LIKE OFFENCES
~ $ e Stollen ~ v ~ ~ y, ~ etc. Any person who receives anything
which has been obtained by means of any act const~tuting an indictable
offence, or by means of any act done at a place not in Queensland which
if it had been done in Queensland would have constituted an indictable
offence and which is an offence under the laws in force in the place where
is was done, knowing the same to have been SO obtained, is guilty of a
crime.
&mere the thing so obtained has been-
(1) Converted into other property in any manner whatsoever;
or
(2) Mortgaged or pledged or exchanged for any other property;
any person who knowing-
(a) That the said property is wholly or h part the property into
which the thing so obtained has been converted or for
which the same has been mortgaged or pledged or exchanged;
and
(b) That the thing so obtained was obtained under such circumstances
as to constitute a crime under the first paragraph of
this section;
receives the whole or any part of the property into which the thing so
obtained has been converted or for which the same has been mortgaged
or pledged or exchanged, is guilty of a crime within the meaning of the
first ~arag~~~h of this section and may be indicted and punished
accordingly.
If the offence by means of which the thing was obtained is a crime,
the offender is liable to ~m~~ison~ent with hard labour for foul-iteen
years.
In any other case the offender is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for seven years.
For the purpose of proving the receiving of anything it is sufficient
to show that the accused person has, either alone or g’oindy with some
other person, had the thing in his possession, or has aided in concealing
it or disposing of it.
As amended by Act of 1943, 7 Geo. 6 No. 14, s. 18.
When a thing bas been
indictable offence, or by
means of an act done at a place not in Queensland wlzich if it had been
done in Queensland would have constituted ~n~~cta~le offence, and
which is alp offence under the laws in force in t glace where it was done,
and an0ther person has acquired a lawful title to it, or, in the event of