Criminal Code Act 1899 - Queensland Legislation

Schedule 1 The Criminal CodePart 2 Offences against public orderChapter 8 Offences against the executive and legislative power[s 60]Legislative Assembly, or in any committee thereof, shall beinfluenced thereby, or shall be given in any particular manneror in favour of any particular side of any question or matter, isguilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for 7 years,and is disqualified from sitting or voting as a member of theLegislative Assembly for 7 years.(2) The offender can not be arrested without warrant.60 Bribery of member of Parliament(1) Any person who—(a) in order to influence a member of the LegislativeAssembly in the member’s vote, opinion, judgment, oraction, upon any question or matter arising in theLegislative Assembly or in any committee thereof or inorder to induce the member to absent himself or herselffrom the Assembly or from any such committee, gives,confers, or procures, or promises or offers to give orconfer, or to procure or attempt to procure, any propertyor benefit of any kind to, upon, or for, such member, orto, upon, or for, any other person; or(b) attempts, directly or indirectly, by fraud, or by threats orintimidation of any kind, to influence a member of theLegislative Assembly in the member’s vote, opinion,judgment, or action, upon any such question or matter,or to induce the member to so absent himself or herself;is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.(2) The offender can not be arrested without warrant.(3) Where a person has been convicted (whether before or after 1July 1922) of an offence under this section, all property whichhas been tendered or produced in evidence at the trial of theoffender, as being the property or part of the property whichthe offender in the course of the commission of such offencegave, conferred or procured, or promised or offered to give, orconfer or to procure, or attempt to procure, to, upon, or for amember of the Legislative Assembly, or to, upon, or for anyCurrent as at 1 December 2014 Page 69