Criminal Code Act 1899 - Queensland Legislation

Schedule 1 The Criminal CodePart 4 Acts injurious to the public in generalChapter 24 Offences against public health[s 240]with the intention of inducing in that person or another persona belief that goods have been contaminated or interfered withand causes—(a) public alarm or anxiety; or(b) that person or that other person to refrain frompurchasing those goods or goods of that or any similarclass; or(c) any person to suffer economic loss through taking stepsto avoid public alarm or anxiety; or(d) members of the public to refrain from purchasing thosegoods or goods of that or any similar class;commits a crime.Maximum penalty—7 years imprisonment.240 Dealing in contaminated goodsA person who knowingly—(a) sells or exposes for sale as goods for humanconsumption, or has in the person’s possession withintent to sell it as goods for human consumption, anyarticle that the person knows to be contaminated orotherwise unfit as goods for human consumption; or(b) takes into a slaughter house used for the slaughter of anyanimals intended for human consumption the whole orany part of the carcass of an animal that has died of adisease; or(c) sells or exposes for sale the whole or part of the carcassof an animal that has died of a disease or that wasdiseased when slaughtered;commits a misdemeanour.Maximum penalty—3 years imprisonment.Current as at 1 December 2014 Page 165