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

76 SS. 184-188 CRIMINAL CODE
Any person who refuses or fails to comply with such request is
guilty of an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to a further
fine of ten dollars, and may be removed by any person authorised to
make the request; and all police oflicers are required, on demand, to
remove or assist in removing such person.
Decimal currency references substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.
s. Any person who wilfully and unlaw-
(1) Destroys, damages, or removes, any part of any apparatus
used in the working of, or in connection with, an electric
telegraph under the control of the Postmaster-General; or
(2) Prevents or obstructs the sending or delivering of a com-
munication by any such telegraph;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for three years.
Any justice before whom a person is charged with any such offence
may, if he thinks fit, direct the charge to be dealt with sumarily; and
in that case the offender is liable on summary conviction to imprison~en~
for three months, or to a fine of forty dollars.
A person found committing or attempting to commit any such offence
may be arrested without warrant.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.
. Any person who attempts to commit
last preceding section, is guilty of an
offence, and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for three
months, or to a fine of twenty dollars.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.
6. ~ e ~~~~~~~ ~ Tel ~ s. Any person ~ who negligently ~ ~ destroys
or damages any post, wire, or material, used in connection with an electric
telegraph under the control of the Postmaster-General, is guilty of an
oQEence, and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of four dollars.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.
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9, ~~~l~~~~ of ecy. Any person who, being employed in a telegraph
oflice, publishes or co~unicates the contents or substance of a telegram,
cscept to some person to whom he is authorised to deliver the telegram,
is guilty of an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment
with hard labour for six months, or to a fine of two hundred dollars.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.
s for Use of Tel a Any
become entitled wi Bost-
master-General to the use of a telegraph line, demands or receives any
payment or valuable consideration from any ot for the use of
the line, is guilty of an oifence, and is liable on conviction to a
h e of one hundred dollars.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.