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

44 88.57-59 CRIMINAL CODE
(2) It shall be lawful for any police officer to search any person
found in any building or grounds referred to in the previous subsection
hereof who is reasonably suspected by such police officer to be armed,
and any arms found in the possession or under the control of any such
person shall upon his conviction for an offence under this section be
forfeited to His Majesty.
(3) For the purposes of this section the word “armed” shall mean
having in his possession or under his immediate control whether concealed
or not-
(a) h y firearm whatsoever loaded or unloaded and whether
capable of projecting a missile or not; or
(b) Any bomb or other explosive matter, machine, or devise
mechanical or otherwise capable of causing injury to any
person or damage to any property or any dangerous or
offensive weapon or instrument; or
(c) Any corrosive substance;
and the word ““arms” shall have a correlative meaning.
Inserted by Amendment Act of 1939, 3 Geo. 6 No. 28, s. 2.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.
57. Fdse ence befcme ewt. Any person who in the course of
an examination before either House of Parliament, or before a ittec
of either House, or before a joint Committee of both Houses, D@Y
gives a false answer to any lawful and relevant question put to him in the
course of the examination is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment
with hard labour for seven years.
The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.
A person cannot be convicted of the oEence deked in this section
upon the uncorroborated testimony of one witness.
ce before
(1 ) Being duly summoned to attend as a witness or to produce
nt, or other thing, in his possession, before
arliament, or before a Committee of either
House, or before a joint Committee of both Houses,
authorised to summon witnesses or to call for the production
of such thing, refuses or neglects without lawful excuse to
attend pursuant to the summons or to produce anything
which he is summoned to produce, and which is revelant
and proper to be produced; or
(2) Being present before either House of Parliament, or before
a ~o~mitte~ of either House or before a joint Committee
of both Houses authorised to summon witnesses, refuses to
answer any lawful and relevant question;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years.
As amended by the Criminal Code Correction of Errors Act of 1900, 64 Vic,
No. 7, s. 1.
59. nlE receiving ~ ~ b ~ ~ ~ ~ A n y
person who, being a
member of either House of Parliament, asks, receives, or obtains, or
agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any
kind for himself or any other person upon any understanding that his
vote, opinion, judgment, or action, in the House of which he is a