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 330]330 Sending or taking unseaworthy ships to sea(1) Any person who—(a) sends or attempts to send a ship to sea in such anunseaworthy state that the life of any person is likely tobe thereby endangered; orEditor’s note—Subsection (1)(a) as originally enacted was numbered as (1) andsubsection (1)(b) was numbered as (2).(b) being a master of a British ship, knowingly takes orattempts to take the ship to sea in such an unseaworthystate that the life of any person is likely to be therebyendangered;is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.(2) It is a defence to a charge of any of the offences defined in thissection to prove that the going of the ship to sea in suchunseaworthy state was, under the circumstances, reasonableand justifiable.(3) It is a defence to a charge of either of the offences firstlydefined in this section to show that the accused person used allreasonable means to ensure the ship being sent to sea in aseaworthy state.333 Evading laws as to equipment of shipsAny person who, being a person having actual control over avessel on board of which any article has been placed with theperson’s knowledge or consent in order to the obtaining ofpermission or authority to leave a port, removes or allows theremoval of such article from the vessel after such permissionor authority has been obtained is guilty of a misdemeanour,and is liable to imprisonment for 3 years.334 Landing explosivesAny person who—Page 208 Current as at 1 December 2014