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

254 ss. 473-449 CRIMINAL CODE
seamen, or unlawfully attempts to remove, deface, or render invisible,
any such thing, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with
hard labour for seven years, with or without solitary confinement.
s. Any person who-
oves or disturbs any fixed object
or materials used for securing a bank or wall of the sea, or
of a river, canal, aqueduct, reservoir, or inland water, or for
securing any work which appertains to a port, harbour, dock,
canal, aqueduct, reservoir, or inland water, or which is used
for purposes of navigation or lading or unlading goods; or
(2) awfully does any act with intent to obstruct the carrying
on, completion, or maintenance of tbe navigation of a
navigable river or canal, and thereby obstructs such carrying
on, completion, or maintenance;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to ~prisonment with hard labour for
seven years, with or without solitary confinment.
OiIlS ~~~~~~$ $0 s. Any person who
wilfully and unlawfully causes, or is concerned in causing, or attempts to
cause, any infectious disease to be communicated to or among any animal
or animals capable of being stolen, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to
~ ~ p ~ ~ s with ~ nhard m e labour ~ t for seven years.
ds. Any person who causes any
with an infectious disease to travel,
or, being the owner or one of two or more joint owners of any four-
footed animal which is infected with an infectious disease, permits or
connives at the travelling of any such animal, contrary to the provisions
of any Statute relating to infected animals of that kind, is guilty of a
misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years.
arY Any person who wilfully and udawfully,
and with intent to defraud, removes or defaces any object or mark which
has been lawfully erected or made as an indication of the boundary of
any land is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with
hard labour for three years.
477. ~~~~~~~~~~
ways. Any person who, by any unlawful act, or by
any intentional o on to do any act which it is his duty to do, causes
any engine or vehicle in use upon a railway to be obstructed in its
passage on the railway, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to
~~p~~sonment with hard labour for two years.
estroy. Any person who,
knowing the contents of the writing, causes any person to receive any
writing threatening that any building or vessel, whether complete or not,
0r any stack of cultivated vegetable produce, or any such produce that is
in or under a building, shall be burnt or destroyed, is guilty of a crime,
and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for seven years.
479. Arrest ~~~~o m~ant, Any person suspected of committing
any of the misdemeanours defined in this chapter may be arrested without
warrant by a police officer. Moreover any person found committing any
of the misdemeanours so defined may be arrested without warrant by the
owner of the property injured or his servant, or by any person authorised
by such owner or servant.
Substituted by Act of 1943, 7 Ceo. 6, No. 14, s. 22.