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

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(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
€or seven years.
As amended by Amendment Act of 1922, 13 Geo. 5 No. 2, s. 3 (vi).
ow far a Defence. A person who takes any such oath
or engagement as is mentioned in the two last preceding sections cannot
set up as a defence that he was compelled to do so, unless within fourteen
days after taking it, or, if he is prevented by actual force or sickness,
within fourteen days after the termination of such prevention, he declares
by information on oath before some member of the Executive Cumcil or
justice of the peace, or, if he is on actual service in Her Majesty’s Forces
by sea or land, either by such information or by information to his
commanding officer, the whole of what he knows concerning the matter,
including the person or persons by whom and in whose presence, and
the place where, and the time when, the oath or engagement was
administered or taken.
56). EEect of Brosec~ti~n. A person who has been tried, and convicted
or acquitted on a charge of any of the crimes hereinbefore in this Chapter
defined, cannot be afterwards prosecuted upon the same facts for the
crime of treason, or for the crime of failing, when he knows that any
person intends to commit treason, to give information thereof with all
reasonable despatch to a justice or use other reasonable endeavours to
prevent the commission of the crime.
g. (1) Any person who-
(a) In contravention of the directions of a Proclamation by the
Governor in Council in that behalf, trains or drills any
other person to the use of arms or the practice of military
exercises, movements, or evolutions; or
(b) Is present at any meeting or assembly of persons held in
contravention of the directions of any such Proclamation, for
the purpose of there training or drilling any other person to
the use of arms or the practice of military exercises, move-
ments, or evolutions;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for
seven years.
(2) Any person who, at any meeting or assembly held in contra-
vention of the directions of a Proclamation by the Governor in Council
in that behalf, is trained or drilled to the use of arms or the practice of
military exercises, movements, or evolutions, or who is present at any such
meeting or assembly for the purpose of being so trained or drilled, is
guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years.
The offender may be arrested without warrant.
(3) A prosecution for any of the offences defined in this sectioa
must be begun within six months after the offence is committed.
As amended by Amendment Act of 1900, 64 Vie. No. 7, s. 1.