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

CRIMINAL CODE ~3.78~79 49
(c) Being accompanied by any music of a like nature or
tendency;
and being so assembled, join in any parade or procession for the purpose
of celebrating or commemorating any festival, anniversary, or political
event, relating to or connected with any religious or political distinction
or difference between any classes of Her Majesty’s subjects, or of demonstrating
any such religious or political distinction or difference, are guilty
of an offence; and each of them is liable on summary conviction to
imprisonment for one month.
If the offender is himself bearing or wearing firearms or any other
offfensive weapon, he is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for
ix months.
(2) When three or more persons are so assernbled together, it is the
duty of a justice of the peace to read or repeat aloud, or cause some other
person to read or repeat aloud, to the persons assembled a command in
these words or to the like effect:-
Our Sovereign Lady the Queen charges and commands all
persons here assembled immediately to disperse themselves
and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful
business, or they will be liable to be imprisoned. Cod Save
the Queen!
Any persons who, being so assembled, continue together to the
number of three or more, and do not disperse themselves within the space
of a quarter of an hour after the giving of the command are guilty of an
offence: and each of them is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment
for three months.
(3) A justice may issue a warrant in the first instance for the arrest
sf any such offender, either on the oath of a credible person or on his
own view.
(4) This section does not apply to a parade or procession held in
the course of an election for any office or place of a public character.
CHAPTER X-OFFENCES AGAINST POLITICAL LIBERTY
Any person who by violence, or
, hinders or interferes with the free
exercise of any political right by another person, is guilty of a
misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for two
years.
If the oftender is a public officer, and commits the offence in abuse
of his author~ty as such officer, he is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for three years.
CHAPTER XI-PIRACY
itbn of Piracy in General. In this Chapter the term (‘pirate’’
includes any person who on the high seas commits, otherwise than as an
act of war and under the authority of some Foreign Prince or State, any
act with respect to a ship, or any goods or merchandis~ belonging to a
ship or laden upon it, which, if the act were committed on land, would
~onst~tute robbery as hereinafter defined; and any person who, having on
the high seas obtained possession of a ship by means of any such act,
retains possession thereof.