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

40 SS. 46-48 CRIMINAL CODE
(c) To excite in good faith Her Majesty’s subjects to attempt
to procure by lawful means the alteration of any matter in
the State as by law established; or
(d) To point out in good faith in order to their removal any
matters which are producing or have a tendency to produce
feelings of ill-will and enmity between different classes of
Her Majesty’s subjects.
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s E ~ etc. A seditious ~ enterprise ~ is ~ an ~ ~
aken in order to the carrying out of a seditious
intention.
Seditious words are words expressive of a seditious intention.
The term “seditious writing’’ includes anything intended to be read,
and any sign or visible representation, which is expressive of a seditious
intention.
e$. Any person who-
(1 ) Administers, or is present at and consents to the administering
of any oath or en~~~ement in the nature of an oath, purport-
ing to bind the person who takes it to commit the crime of
treason or murder, or any of the crimes defined in the
second paragraph of section eighty-one and in section eighty-
two of this Code; or
(2) Takes any such oath or engagement, not being compelled
to do so; or
(3) Attempts to induce any person to take any such oath or
engagement;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for
life, with or without solitary confinement.
As amended by Amendment Act of 1922, 13 Geo. 5 No. 2, s. 3 (v), (vi);
Act of 1971, No. 41, s. 7.
enees. Any person who-
(1) Administers, or is present at and consents to the ad~inister~g
of, any oath or engagement in the nature of an oath,
purporting to bind the person who takes it to act in any of
the ways following, that is to say,-
(a) To engage in any mutinous or seditious enterprise;
(b) To commit any indictable offence not being any of the
crimes mentioned or referred to in paragraph (1) of the
last preceding section;
(c) To disturb the public peace;
(d) To be of any associatiorn, society, or confederacy, formed
for the purpose of doing any such act as aforesaid;
(e) To obey the order or commands of any committee or body
of men not lawfully constituted, or of any leader or com-
mander or other person not having authority by law for
that purpose;
(f) Not to inform or give evidence against any associate,
confederate, or other person;
(g) Not to reveal or discover any unlawful association, society,
or confederacy, or any illegal act done or to be done, or
any illegal oath or engagement that may have been
administered or tendered to or taken by himself or any
other person, or the import of any such oath or engage-
ment; or