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

CRIMINAL CODE SS. 440-442~ 137
embers of Local iBa
ea1 Authority-
(1 ) Advisedly applies any money forming part of any fund under
the control of the Local Authority to any purpose to which,
to his knowledge, it cannot lawfully be applied; or
(2) Advisedly concurs in any such application of any such money;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for two years.
The term ‘‘Local Authority” includes any corporation or board con-
stituted or appointed under the authority of a Statute, and charged with
tbe administration of moneys for any purposes of local concern.
A prosecution for either of the offences defined in this section cannot
be began except by the direction of a Crown Law Officer.
. Any person who, being a clerk or
servant, or being employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk or servant,
does any of the acts following with intent to defraud, that is to say,-
(b)
(cl
is guilty of
ten years.
Destroys, alters, mutilates, or falsifies, any book, document,
valuable security, or account, which belongs tu or is in the
possession of his employer, or has been received by him on
account of his employer, or any entry in any such book,
document, or account, or is privy to any such act; or
Makes or is privy to making any false entry in any such
book, document, or account; or
Omits or is privy to omitting any material particular from
any such book, document, or account;
a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour fur
As amended by Act of 1975, No. 27, s. 41 Sch.
2. cer. Any person who, being an officer
charged with the receipt, custody, or management of any part of the
public revenue or property, knowingly furnishes any false statement or
return of any money or property received by him or entrusted to his
care, or of any balance of money or property in his possession or under
his control, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to ~ prison~~n~
with hard labour for two years.
CHAPTER XLIIA-SECRET COMMISSIONS
ns. In this Chapter-
The term “agent” includes any corporation, h, or person acting
or having been acting, or desirous or intending to act, for or on behalf
of any corporation, firm, or person, whether as agent, partner, co-owner,
clerk, servant, employee, banker, broker, auctioneer, architect, clerk of
works, charterer, master mariner, purser, or any member of the crew of
a vessel, engineer, barrister, solicitor, legal practitioner, conveyancer,
surveyor, buyer, salesman, foreman, trustee, official assignee, executor,
administrator, liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy or of a deed of assign-
ment, receiver, director, manager, or other officer or member of the
committee or governing body of any corporation, club, partnership, or
association, or in any other capacity, either alone or jointly with any other
corporation, firm, or person, and whether in his own name or in the name
of his principal or otherwise: the term also includes a Minister of the
Crown, and a person serving under the Crown or a Minister of the Crown,