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

30 SS. 15-38 CRIMINAL CODE
(b) is on or operating from a vessel, aircraft, rig or other
structure or installation of any kind licensed or required to
be licensed or operating or functioning pursuant to the
authority of, or as regulated by, a law of Queensland.
(3) Any person who, while in on under or over the high seas within
two hundred miles of Queensland, does any act or makes any omission
affecting the person or property of a person connected with Queensland of
such a nature that if he had done the act or made the omission in
Queensland he would have been guilty of an offence against the Statute
Law of Queensland and afterwards comes into Queensland, is by such
coming into Queensland, guilty of an offence of the same kind and is
liable to the same punishment as if he had donc the act or made the
omission in Queensland.
Inserted by Act of 1976, No. 25, s. 3.
efence Force. Officers and men of the Land and Marine Defence
are, while on duty or in un~form, subject to the special laws
relating to that Force, but are not exempt from the provisions of this
Code.
16, ~~~~~~ not to ace. A person cannot
be twice punishe this Code or under
the provisions of any other law for the same act or omission, except in
the case where the act or omission is such that by means thereof he
causes the death of another person, in which case he may be convicted
of the ogence of which he is guilty by reason of causing such death,
notwithstanding that he has already been convicted of some other offence
constituted by the act or omission.
er ~~~~~~~~o~ or Ac d. It is a defence to a charge of any
offence to show that the accused person has already been tried, and
convicted or acquitted upon an indictment on which he might have been
convicted of the offence with which he is charged, or has already been
acquitted upon indictment, or has already been convicted, of an offence
of which he might be convicted upon the indictment or complaint on
which he is charged.
CHAPTER IV-PUNISHMENTS
18.
~~~~~~~~~ The punishments which may be inflicted under
this Code are as follows:-
Imprisonment with hard labour;
Imprisonment without hard labour;
Detention in a reform,atory prison;
Detention in an industrial or reformatory school;
Detention for [such period as may be specified by fh Court] in
such place and on such conditions as the Minister may direct
pursuant to the provisions of The State Children Acts, 29 11
to 1928;
Solitary confinement;
Whipping;
Fine;
Finding security to keep the peace and be of good behaviour.
The punishment of whipping cannot be inflicted upon a female.
As amended by Amendment Acts of 1914, 5 Geo. 5 No. 22, s. 2 (1); 1922,
13 Geo. 5 No. 2, s. 3 ti); State Children Acts Amendment Act of 1928, 19 Geo. 5
No. 19, s. 3,