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

176 SS. 543-545 CRIMINAL CODE
543, Other Cons iracies. Any person who conspires with another to effect
any of the purposes following, that is to say,-
(1) To prevent or defeat the execution or enforcement of any
Statute law;
(2) To cause any injury to the person or reputation of any
person, or to depreciate the value of any property of any
person; or
(3) To prevent or obstruct the free and lawful disposition of any
property by the owner thereof for its fair value; or
(4) To injure any person in his trade or profession; or
(5) To prevent or obstruct, by means of any act or acts which
if done by an individual person would constitute an offence
on his part, the free and lawful exercise by any person of
his trade, profession, or occupation; or
(6) To effect any unlawful purpose; or
(7) To effect any lawful purpose by any unlawful means;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for three years.
anything contained in section
~~~~~~~ Notwithstanding
five hundred and thirty-four or the last preceding section, no act done
or omission made by any two or more persons in contemplation or
furtherance of any industrial dispute, and no agreement or combination
by any two or more persons to do any act or make any omission or to
procure any act to be done or omission to be made in contemplation or
furtherance of any industrial dispute, shall render any of such persons
guilty of any offence i€ such act or omission when done or made by an
individual person would not have rendered such person guilty of an
offence. For the purposes of this section, the expression “industrial
dispute” has the same meaning as in The Industrial Conciliation and
Arbitration Act of 1932.
Substituted by Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1932, 23 Geo. 5
No. 36, s. 85 (2)
CHAPTER LVII-ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT
544. ~ c ~ e after $ the ~ ~ Fact ~ to ~ Cri e es. ~ Any person who becomes an
accessory after the fact to a crime is guilty of a crime, and is liable,
if no other ~un~shment is provided, to imprisonment with hard labour
for two years.
Accessories after the Fact to
ences. Any person who becomes
misdemeanour, or to any offence of such a nature that the offender may
be sentenced on summary conviction to imprisonment with or without
hard labour for six months, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to a
punishment equal to one-half of the greatest punishment to which the
principal offender is liable on conviction.
If the principal offence is such that an offender is punishable on
summary conviction, the accessory may also be summarily convicted.
As amended by Act of 1973, No. 88, S. 11.