42 ss. 52-55 CRIMINAL CODE 52. $ ~ ~ Any person who- ~ ~ Q ~ .
(1) Conspires with any person to carry into execution a seditious (2) Advisedly publishes any seditious words or writing;
enterprise; or
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years.
If he has been previously convicted of any such offence he is guilty of a crime, and is liable to i~prisonment with hard labour for seven years.
A prosecution for any of the offences defined in this section must be begun within six months after the offence is committed.
A person cannot be convicted of any of the offences defined in this seetion upon the uncorroborated testimony of one witness.
3. ces. Any person who, without such
justification or excuse as would be sufficient irn the case of the defamation of a private person, publishes anything intended to be read, or any sign or visible representation, tending to expose to hatred or contempt in the estimation of the people of any Foreign State any Prince or person exercising sovereign authority over that State, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years.
CRIMINAL CODE SS. 56-56B 43 56. Disturbing the Legislataare. Any person who advisedly-
(1 ) Disturbs either House of Parliament while in session; or (2) Commits any disorderly conduct in the immediate view and
presence of either House of Parliament while in session, tending to interrupt its proceedings or to impair the respect due to its authority;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
The offender may be, and it is hereby declared that he always was liable to be, arrested without warrant.
As amended by Amendment Act of 1939, 3 Geo. 6 No. 28, s. 3.
56A.
creating or joining in any disturbance in Parliament Mouse or within the precincts thereof at any time other than during an actual sitting of Parlia- ment therein or at the office or residence of the Governor or of any member of the Legislative Assembly or of the Executive Council shall be guilty of an offence and-
(i) If he created or joined in such disturbance in Parliament House or within the precincts thereof, may be apprehended without warrant on the verbal order of the Speaker or, in his absence, of the Clerk of the Parliament, or of the person for the time being discharging the duties of the office of the Clerk of the Parliament, and may be kept in custody by any osce r of Parliament or by any police officer; or
(ii) If he created or joined in such disturbance at the office or residence of the Governor or of any member of the Legislative Assembly or of the Executive Council, may be apprehended without warrant on the verbal order of the Governor or, as the case may be, member of the Legislative Assembly or of the Executive Council concerned, and may be kept in custody by any police officer.
Such person may be so kept in custody until he can be dealt with Every such person shall, as soon as reasonably may be, be brought before a police magistrate without formal written complaint and there and then charged with such offence and summarily dealt with according to law. Any such person on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars with or without imprisonment with hard labour for a term not exceeding six calendar months.
in the manner following, that is to say:-
Inserted by Amendment Act of 1939, 3 Ceo. 6 No. 28, s. 2.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal Police magistrate now stipendiary magistrate; see Justices Acts Amendment Currency Act of 1965.
Act of 1941, s. 4.
ouse. (1) Any person is found in Parliament
any of the grounds thereof or in any building in or upon such grounds is guilty of an offence and is liable on s u ~ ~ a r y conviction to a fine of one hundred dollars with or without i m p r i ~ o n ~ e n t with hard labour for a term not exceeding six calendar months.
The off ender may be arrested without warrant.
44 88.57-59 CRIMINAL CODE
(2) It shall be lawful for any police officer to search any person found in any building or grounds referred to in the previous subsection hereof who is reasonably suspected by such police officer to be armed, and any arms found in the possession or under the control of any such person shall upon his conviction for an offence under this section be forfeited to His Majesty.
( 3 ) For the purposes of this section the word “armed” shall mean having in his possession or under his immediate control whether concealed or not-
( a) h y firearm whatsoever loaded or unloaded and whether capable of projecting a missile or not; or
( b) Any bomb or other explosive matter, machine, or devise mechanical or otherwise capable of causing injury to any person or damage to any property or any dangerous or offensive weapon or instrument; or
(c) Any corrosive substance;
and the word ““arms” shall have a correlative meaning.
Currency Act of 1965.
Inserted by Amendment Act of 1939, 3 Geo. 6 No. 28, s. 2.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal 57. Fdse ence befcme ewt. Any person who in the course of an examination before either House of Parliament, or before a ittec gives a false answer to any lawful and relevant question put to him in the course of the examination is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for seven years.
of either House, or before a joint Committee of both Houses, D@Y
The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.
A person cannot be convicted of the oEence d e k e d in this section upon the uncorroborated testimony of one witness.
ce before
( 1 ) Being duly summoned to attend as a witness or to produce nt, or other thing, in his possession, before arliament, or before a Committee of either House, or before a joint Committee of both Houses, authorised to summon witnesses or to call for the production of such thing, refuses or neglects without lawful excuse to attend pursuant to the summons or to produce anything which he is summoned to produce, and which is revelant and proper to be produced; or
(2) Being present before either House of Parliament, or before a ~ o ~ m i t t e ~ of either House or before a joint Committee of both Houses authorised to summon witnesses, refuses to answer any lawful and relevant question;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years.
As amended by the Criminal Code Correction of Errors Act of 1900, 64 Vic, No. 7, s. 1.
59. nlE receiving ~ ~ b ~ person who, being a ~ ~ ~ A n y member of either House of Parliament, asks, receives, or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person upon any understanding that his vote, opinion, judgment, or action, in the House of which he is a
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member, or in any Committee thereof, or in any joint Committee of both Houses, shall be influenced thereby, or shall be given in any particular manner or in favour of any particular side of any question or matter, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for seven years, and is disqualified from sitting or voting as a member of either House of Parliament for seven years.
The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.
er of en$. Any person who--- ( 1 ) In order to iduence a member of either House
in his vote, opinion, judgment, or action, upon
or matter arising in the House of which he is a member or in any Committee thereof, or in any joint ~ o m ~ i t t e e of both Houses, or in order to induce him to absent himself from the House or from any such Committee, gives, confers, or procures, or promises or offers to give or coder, or to procure or attempt to procure, any property or benefit of any kind to, upon, or for, such member, or to, upon, or for, any other person; or
mpts, directly or indirectly, by fraud, or by threats or midation of any kind, to influence a member of either se of Parliament in his vote, opinion, judgment, or action, upon any such question or matter, or to induce him to so.
absent himself;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for seven years.
The offender cannot be arrested without warrant.
Where a person has been convicted (whether before or after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two) oE an offence under this section, all property which has been tendered or produced in evidence at the trial of the offender, as being the pr or part of the property which the oEender in the course of the commission of such offence gave, conferred or procured, or promised or offered to give, or confer or to procure, or attempt to procure, to, upon, or for a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, or to, upon, or for any other person, shall become and be deemed to have become forthwith upon such conviction and without any further judgment or order the absolute property of His Majesty, whether such property is the property of the offender or of any other person,
As amended by Amendment Act a€ 1922 (No. 21, 13 Geo. 5 No. 26, s. 2.