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

CRIMINAL CODE 3s. 459-4163 149
A pmon is not criminally responsible for any injury caused to
erty by the use of such force as is reasonably necessary for the
purpose of defending or protecting himself, or any other person, or any
property, from injury which he believes, on reasonable grounds, to be
imminent .
a When an act which causes injury
to property, and which would be otherwise lawful, is done with intent
to de~r~u~ any person, it is unlawful.
en an act which causes injury to property is done with intent
to de~ra~~ any person, it is i~aterial that the property jn question is
the property of the offender himself.
age. The term ‘“damage” used in relation to a document, or
to a writing or inscription, includes obliterating and ren~~ri~g illegible,
either in whole or in part.
CHAPTER XLVP-OFFENCES
4611. Arson. Any person who wilfully and unlawfully sets %e to any of
&he things following, that is to say,-
(a) Any building or structure whatever, whether completed or
not;
(’23) Any vessel, whether completed or not;
(c) Any stack of culltivated vegetable produce, or of mineral or
vegetable fuel;
(d) A mine, or the workings, fittings, or appliances of a mine;
(e) Any aircraft or motor vehicle;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with bard labour for
1 ife . As amended by Act of 1948, 12 Oeo. 6 No. 48, s. 10.
t Arson. Any person whottempts
unlawfully to set fire to any such thing as is
~e~tioned in the last preceding section; os
(2) Wilfully and unlawfully sets fire to anything
situated that any such thing as is mentioned
preceding section is likely to catch fire from it;
rime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour €OH
ants. Any person who wilfully
sets fire to any of the things following, that is to say,-
(a) A crop of cultivated vegetable produce, whether standing or
cut;
(b) A crop of hay or grass, whether the natural or indige~o~~
product of the soil or not, and whether under cultivation or
not, and whether standing or cut;
(c) Any standing trees, saplings, or shrubs, whether indigenous
or cultivated;
(d) Any heath, gorse, furze, or fern;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for
fourteen years, with or without solitary confinement.