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

CRIMINAL CODE SS. 90-95 53
ers wit hl
or wid in
the Public Service, and being charged by virtue of his employment with
any judicial or administrative duties respecting property of a special
character, or respecting the carrying on of any manufacture, trade, or
business, of a special character, and having acquired or holding, directly
or indirectly, a private interest in any such property, manufacture, trade,
or business, discharges any such duties with respect to the property,
manufacture, trade, or business, in which he has such interest, or with
respect to the conduct of any person in relation thereto, is guilty of a
misdemeanour, and is liable to i ~priso~~nt for one year, and to be fined
at the discretion of the Court.
ciak Any person who, being employed in the
capacity as to require him or to enable him to
furnish returns or statements touching any remuneration payable or
claimed to be payable to himself or to any other person, or touching
any other matter required by law to be certified for the purpose of any
payment of money or delivery of goods to be made to any person, makes
a return or statement touching any such matter which. is, to his knowledge,
false in any material particular, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable
to imprisonment with hard labour for three years.
ce. Any person who, being employed in the Public
Service, does or directs to be done, in abuse of the authority of his ofice,
any arbitrary act prejudiGia1 to the rights of another is guilty of a
~~s~emea~ou~, and is liable to imprisonment for two years.
If the act is done or directed to be done for purposes of gain, he is
liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years.
se Any person who, being duly
under any Statute to be a valuator for determining the C Q ~ -
to be paid to any person for land compulsorily taken from him
authority of any Statute, or for injury done to any land under
of any Statute-
(1) Acts as such valuator while he has, to his knowledge,
interest in the land in question; or
unfaithfully, dishonest~y, or with partiality, the
alring a valuation of the land or of the extent of
the injury;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for three
years.
cess. Any person who, being
certificate touching any matter
by virtue whereof the rights of any person may be prejudicially affected,
gives a certificate which is, to his knowledge, false in any material
~~icular is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with
bard labour for three years.
9 ~=~~~~~~~~ s. Any person who administers an
oath, or takes a solemn declaration or affirmation or affidavit,
touching any matter with respect to which he has not by law
any authority to do so, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to
imprisonment for one year.