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

CRIMINAL CODE ss. 106, 107 57
(5) Being a candidate at an election, withdraws from being a
candidate in consideration of a payment or promise of
payment; or
(6) Being a candidate or the agent of a candidate at an election,
corruptly procures any other person to withdraw from being
a candidate at the election in consideration of any payment
or promise of payment;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for one year,
or to a fine of four hundred dollars.
If the offence was committed with respect to a parl~am~ntary election,
the offender also becomes incapable, for two years from the date of the
conviction, of being registered as an elector for the electoral district for
which the election with reference to which the offence was committed was
held, and of voting at any election held for that district.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.
PO e-. Any person whorovides
money for any payment which is contrary
to any law relating to elections, or for replacing any
money which has been expended in any such payment, and
which is not allowed by law to be an exception; or
(2) Prints, publishes, or posts, any bill, placard, or poster, which
has reference to an election, and which does not bear on
the face of it the name and address of the printer and
publisher; or
(3) Hires or uses for a committee-room at an election-
(a) Any part of a house licensed for the sale of fermented
or spirituous liquors; or
(b) Any part of any premises where any intoxicating liqucrr is
sold or supplied to members of a club, society, or
association, which is not a permanent political club; dess in either case, it is a part which has a separate entrance,
and has no direct communication with any part of the
premises in which intoxicating liquor is sold, and is a part
ordinarily let for the purpose of chambers or offices or for
holding public meetings or arbitrations; or
(4) Knowing that fie! same are intended to be used as a
committee-room at an election, lets any part of any such
premises, not being such a part as aforesaid, for such use;
is guilty of an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of
two hundred dollars.
If the offence was committed with respect to a parliamentary election,
and the offender was a candidate or the agent of a candidate at the
election, he also incurs the same incapacity as a person convicted of any
of the offences defined in the last preceding section committed with
respect to a parliamentary election.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965,
e. A prosecution for any of the
offences hereinbefore defined in this Chapter must be begm within one
year after the offence is committed, or, if it is committed with respect to
a parliamentary election with respect to which a petition is tried by the
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