Criminal Code Act 1899 - Queensland Legislation

Schedule 1 The Criminal CodePart 5 Offences against the person and relating to marriage and parental rights and dutiesChapter 29 Offences endangering life or health[s 322](3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply whether or not the accused hadany particular person in mind as the person in whom he or sheintended to induce the belief mentioned in the subsections.322 Administering poison with intent to harmA person who unlawfully, and with intent to injure or annoyanother person, causes a poison or another noxious thing to beadministered to, or taken by, any person commits a crime.Maximum penalty—(a) if the poison or other noxious thing endangers the lifeof, or does grievous bodily harm to, the person to whomit is administered or by whom it is taken—14 yearsimprisonment; or(b) otherwise—7 years imprisonment.323 Wounding(1) A person who unlawfully wounds anyone else commits amisdemeanour.Maximum penalty—7 years imprisonment.(2) The offender may be arrested without warrant.(3) The Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 108B states acircumstance of aggravation for an offence against thissection.323A Female genital mutilation(1) Any person who performs female genital mutilation onanother person is guilty of a crime.Maximum penalty—14 years imprisonment.(2) It is not a defence that the other person, or, if the other personis a child, a parent or guardian of the other person, consentedto the mutilation.Current as at 1 December 2014 Page 201