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CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - NOTES
CRIMINAL CODE 1899
Reprinted as in force on 24 September 2009
Reprint No. 7C
Page
Date to which amendments incorporated 423
Key 424
Table of reprints 424
Tables in earlier reprints for Criminal Code Act 1899 426
List of legislation for Criminal Code Act 1899 426
List of annotations for Criminal Code Act 1899 427
Tables in earlier reprints for Criminal Code 427
List of legislation for Criminal Code 428
List of annotations for Criminal Code 441
List of forms notified or published in the gazette 504
Transitional and savings provisions for Criminal Code 505
This is the reprint date mentioned in the Reprints Act 1992, section 5(c). Accordingly, this reprint includes all amendments that commenced operation on or before 24 September 2009. Future amendments of the Criminal Code Act 1899 may be made in accordance with this reprint under the Reprints Act 1992, section 49.
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previously
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amended
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proclamation
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amendment
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provision
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chapter
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part
def
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definition
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published
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division
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Reprint No. [X]
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expires/expired
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Reprints Act 1992
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gazette
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relocated
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heading
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renumbered
ins
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inserted
rep
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repealed
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lapsed
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retrospectively
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notified
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revised edition
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numbered
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section
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order in council
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schedule
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omitted
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subdivision
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original
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Statutory Instruments Act 1992
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page
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Statutory Instruments Regulation 2002
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paragraph
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previous
Reprint No.
Amendments to
Effective
Reprint date
1
1993 Act No. 70
26 March 1994
26 March 1994
1A
1995 Act No. 58
18 December 1995
7 August 1996
1B
1995 Act No. 58
17 February 1997
14 March 1997
1C
1997 Act No. 9
1 July 1997
4 July 1997
2
1997 Act No. 38
1 August 1997
1 August 1997
2A
1997 Act No. 82
5 December 1997
9 December 1997
2B
1998 Act No. 19
26 March 1998
3 April 1998
2C
1999 Act No. 19
30 April 1999
18 June 1999
3
2000 Act No. 5
23 March 2000
31 March 2000
3A
2000 Act No. 23
1 July 2000
14 July 2000
3B
2000 Act No. 23
28 September 2000
29 September 2000
3C
2000 Act No. 46
27 October 2000
8 November 2000
3D
2000 Act No. 63
17 November 2000
1 December 2000
3E
2001 Act No. 19
6 August 2001
17 August 2001
Reprint No.
Amendments to
Effective
Reprint date
4
2001 Act No. 19
6 August 2001
7 September 2001
4A
2001 Act No. 19
28 February 2002
13 March 2002
4B
2002 Act No. 23
28 February 2002
5 June 2002
4C
2002 Act No. 23
6 June 2002
20 June 2002
Reprint No.
Amendments included
Effective
Notes
4D
2002 Act No. 23
19 July 2002
4E rv
2002 Act No. 35
27 September 2002
4F
2002 Act No. 68
29 November 2002
4G
2002 Act No. 74
1 April 2003
4H
2003 Act No. 3
1 May 2003
4I
2003 Act No. 15
20 June 2003
4J rv
1992 Act No. 44 (amd 2002 Act No. 39)
2002 Act No. 39
1 July 2003
4K
2003 Act No. 92
3 December 2003
4L
2003 Act No. 77
8 December 2003
4M
2003 Act No. 55
5 January 2004
4N
2004 Act No. 8
6 August 2004
4O
2004 Act No. 43
3 December 2004
4P
2004 Act No. 37
1 January 2005
5 rv
2005 Act No. 9
4 April 2005
Revision notice issued for R5
5A rv
2005 Act No. 24
26 May 2005
5B rv
2005 Act No. 70
8 December 2005
5C rv
2005 Act No. 55
1 January 2006
5D rv
2006 Act No. 26
2006 Act No. 30
1 June 2006
5E rv
2005 Act No. 45
30 June 2006
5F rv
2006 Act No. 25
1 July 2006
5G rv
2006 Act No. 8
3 July 2006
5H rv
2006 Act No. 29
28 August 2006
5I rv
2006 Act No. 45
10 November 2006
R5I rv withdrawn, see R6
6
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10 November 2006
6A
2007 Act No. 14
20 March 2007
6B
2007 Act No. 24
1 July 2007
6C
2007 Act No. 37
28 September 2007
6D
2007 Act No. 49
25 October 2007
6E
2007 Act No. 6
30 October 2007
6F
2007 Act No. 37
30 November 2007
6G
2007 Act No. 59
15 March 2008
6H
2007 Act No. 15
1 July 2008
6I
2008 Act No. 50
19 September 2008
6J
2008 Act No. 59
25 November 2008
Reprint No.
Amendments included
Effective
Notes
7
2008 Act No. 55
2008 Act No. 67
1 December 2008
7A
2009 Act No. 4
1 July 2009
7B
2009 Act No. 33
5 September 2009
7C
2009 Act No. 25
24 September 2009
Name of table
Reprint No.
Renumbered provisions
1
Name of table
Reprint No.
Changed citations and remade laws
1
Changed titles
1
Comparative legislation
1
Corrected minor errors
1, 3, 6, 7
Obsolete and redundant provisions
1
Renumbered provisions
1
See forms published gazette 4 August 2000 pp 1217-18 and notified under the Supreme Court of Queensland Act 1991. Because failure by a department to notify or publish a form in the gazette does not invalidate the form, you should check with the relevant government department for the latest information about forms (see Statutory Instruments Act, section 58(8)).
Section 2 of the Criminal Code Amendment Act of 1922 provides--
The sentence of punishment by death shall no longer be pronounced or recorded, and the punishment of death shall no longer be inflicted.
Section 3 of the Criminal Code Amendment Act 1968 provides--
This Act does not apply in respect of compensation for injury suffered before the commencement of this Act.
Sections 9-10 of the Criminal Code and the Offenders Probation and Parole Act Amendment Act 1971 provides--
A reference in any Act (other than this Act), or in any instrument made under any such Act, to--
(a) "wilful murder";
(b) "wilful murder or murder";
(c) "wilful murder and murder";
(d) "wilful murder, murder",
shall, unless the context is such that it would be inappropriate or the contrary intention appears, be read as a reference to "murder" and the Act or instrument shall have effect accordingly.
(1) Where a person is charged on indictment with an offence against section 301 of The Criminal Code before the commencement of this Act and the trial on the indictment is continued after that commencement, the trial shall be continued, and punishment shall be imposed and enforced upon a conviction in the proceedings, as if this Act had not been passed.
(2) Where before the commencement of this Act a person has committed an offence against section 301 of The Criminal Code in respect of which he has not been charged on indictment before that commencement, he may be charged under section 302 of
The Criminal Code
as amended by this part of this Act in respect of the act or omission constituting the offence as if at the time of doing the act or making the omission constituting the offence as if at the time of doing the act or making the omission the said section 302 as so amended had been of force and effect.
Section 19 of the Justices Act and the Criminal Code Amendment Act 1977 provides--
Where, in the form in which a section inserted by way of amendment in
The Criminal Code
was enacted, there appears a note in and at the beginning of the section it shall be deemed that such note is and was enacted as a heading appearing immediately above the section in and at the beginning of which it appears.
Section 3 of the Regulatory Offences Act 1985 provides--
Subject to the provisions of section 10, nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter the provisions of The Criminal Code.
Section 16 the Criminal Code and Another Act Amendment Act 1990 provides--
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person who before the commencement of this Act commits--
(a) an offence defined in sections 208 (1) or (3) of
The Criminal Code
as it exists immediately before the commencement; or
(b) an offence defined in section 209 or 535 of
The Criminal Code
constituted by an attempt to commit an offence defined in paragraph (a);
cannot thereafter be convicted of the offence unless it is committed in respect of a person not an adult within the meaning of
The Criminal Code
(3) A person who, before the commencement of this Act commits an offence defined in section 211 of
The Criminal Code
as it existed immediately before the commencement, cannot thereafter be convicted of the offence.
(4) A provision of this section stating that a person cannot be convicted after the commencement of this Act of an offence defined in a specified section of
The Criminal Code
committed before the commencement does not have the effect that such a person cannot be charged convicted and punished for an offence defined in some other section of
The Criminal Code
where the circumstances in question constitute an offence defined in that other section.