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

CRIMINAL CODE s5.65-59 449'
A prosecution for any of the crimes defined in this section must be
begun within a year after the crime is committed.
ieags, etc. Any persons who, being riotously
assembled together? unlawfully pull down or destroy, or begin to pull down
or destroy-
(a) Any building whatever; or
(b) Any machinery whatever, whether fixed or moveable; or
(c) Any structae used in farming land, or in carrying on any
trade or manufacture, or in conducting the business of a
mine; or
(d) Any bridge, wagon-way, or trunk, for conveying materials
from a mine;
are guilty of a crime: and each of them is liable to imprisonment witb
hard labour for life, with or without solitary confinement.
cry, etc. Any persons who, being
riotously asse ~nlawfu~ly damage any of the things in the
last preceding section mentioned, are guilty of a crime: and each of them
is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for seven years.
s, Any persons who
assemble together, to the number of three or more, armed with firearms
or other dangerous or offensive weapons, in order to effect or aid in
effecting any of the following purposes, that is to say,-
(a) The unlawful shipping, unshipping, loading, moving, or carrying
away, of any goods the impo~at~on of which is prohibited,
or any goods liable to Customs duties which duties have not
been paid or secured;
(b) "be rescuing or taking of any such goods from any person
authorised to seize them, or from any person employed by
him or assisting him, or from any place which any such
person has put them;
(c) The rescuing of any person who has been arrested on a
charge of any crime relating to the Customs;
(d) The prevention of the arrest of any person guilty of any
such crime, or of any person aiding in effecting any of the
purposes in this section mentioned;
are guilty of a crime: and each of them is liable to imprisonment with
t&e. Any persons who are found
ether, to the
six or more, having with them any
goods liable to forfeiture under any law relating to the Customs, and
carrying firearms or other dangerous or offensive weapons, or disguised?
are guilty of a crime: and each of them is liable to ~prisonm~nt with
hard labour for seven years.
SO as to Cause Fear. Any person who goes armed in
public without lawful occasion in such a manner as to cause fear to
any person is guiliiy of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment
with hard labour for two years.
The offender may be, and it is hereby declared that he always was
liable to be, arrested without warrant.
As amended by Amendment Act of 1939, 3 Geo. 6 No. 28, s. 3; Act of
1975, No. 27, s. 4.