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

CRIMINAL CODE s.1 25
The term “person” and “owner,” and other like terms, when used
with reference to property, include corporations of all kinds, and any
other associations of persons capable of owning property: They also, when
so used, include Her Majesty;
The term ‘‘person employed in the Public Service” includes officers
and men of the Defence Force and police oacers, and persons employed
to execute any process of a court of justice: It also includes the Com-
missioner for Railways, and persons employed by him;
The term “police officer” includes any constable or officer of police;
The term “Post and Telegraph Department” means the Department
of State charged with the execution of the laws relating to public Posts
and Telegraphs;
The term “Postmaster-General” means the Minister charged with the
administration of that ~epartment;
The terms “Post Office” and “Telegraph Office,” respectively, mean
and include any structure, room, place, or receptacle, of any kind,
appointed by authority of the Postmaster-General for the receipt, despatch,
or delivery, of anything sent by post or telegraph, or for the transaction
of the business of the Department relating to Posts and Telegraphs
respectively;
T’he term “property” includes every thing, animate or inanimate,
capable of being the subject of ownership;
The term “railway” includes every kind of way on which vehicles
are borne upon a rail or rails, whatever may be the means of propulsion;
The terms “registered brand” and “registered mark“ mean respec-
tively a brand or mark which is registered under the authority of the
laws relating to brands and each such registered brand or registered mark
shall for the purposes of this Code be deemed to be the registered brand
or registered mark respectively of the person in whose name such brand
or mark is registered: Provided that where such brand or mark is
registered in the names of two or more persons such registered brand or
registered mark shall for the purposes of this Code be deemed to be
the registered brand or registered mark respectively of each of such
persons;
The term “ship” includes every kind of vessel used in navigation
not propelled by oars;
The term “summary conviction” means summary conviction before
two justices in petty sessions;
The term “telegraph” includes a telephone;
The terms “telegram” and “thing sent by telegraph” mean and
include any written or printed or partly written and partly printed
message delivered at a telegraph office or post office for transmission by
electric telegraph, or delivered or prepared for delivery from a telegraph
office or post office as a message transmitted by electric telegraph for
delivery;
The term “thing sent by post” includes any letter, newspaper, packet,
parcel, or other thing, authorised by law to be transmitted by post, which
has been posted or received at a post office for delivery or transmission
by post, and which is in course of transmission by post, and any moveable
receptacle which contains any such thing, and which is in course of
transmission by post;