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

CRTMINAL CODE ss. 60-61 45
member, or in any Committee thereof, or in any joint Committee of
both Houses, shall be influenced thereby, or shall be given in any
particular manner or in favour of any particular side of any question or
matter, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour
for seven years, and is disqualified from sitting or voting as a member
of either House of Parliament for seven years.
The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.
er of en$. Any person who---
( 1 ) In order to iduence a member of either House
in his vote, opinion, judgment, or action, upon
or matter arising in the House of which he is a member or in
any Committee thereof, or in any joint ~om~ittee of both
Houses, or in order to induce him to absent himself from the
House or from any such Committee, gives, confers, or
procures, or promises or offers to give or coder, or to
procure or attempt to procure, any property or benefit of
any kind to, upon, or for, such member, or to, upon, or
for, any other person; or
mpts, directly or indirectly, by fraud, or by threats or
midation of any kind, to influence a member of either
se of Parliament in his vote, opinion, judgment, or action,
upon any such question or matter, or to induce him to so.
absent himself;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for
seven years.
The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.
Where a person has been convicted (whether before or after the
first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two) oE an
offence under this section, all property which has been tendered or
produced in evidence at the trial of the offender, as being the pr
or part of the property which the oEender in the course of the commission
of such offence gave, conferred or procured, or promised or offered to
give, or confer or to procure, or attempt to procure, to, upon, or for a
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, or to, upon, or for
any other person, shall become and be deemed to have become forthwith
upon such conviction and without any further judgment or order the
absolute property of His Majesty, whether such property is the property
of the offender or of any other person,
As amended by Amendment Act a€ 1922 (No. 21, 13 Geo. 5 No. 26, s. 2.
CHAPTER IX-UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES: BREACHES OF THE PEACE
~ ~ When three ~ or more ~ persons, ~ with ~ intent to ~ carry s out .
some common purpose, assemble in such a manner, or, being assembled,
conduct themselves in such a manner, as to cause persons in the neighbourhood
to fear on reasonable grounds that the persons so assembled
will tumultuously disturb the peace, or will by such assembly needlessly
and without any reasonable occasion provoke other persons tumultuously
to disturb the peace, they are an unlawful assembly.
It is immaterial that the original assembling was lawful if, being
assembled, they conduct themselves with a common purpose in such a
manner as aforesaid.