Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Any person who--
(a) unlawfully and indecently deals with a child under the age of 16 years; or
(b) unlawfully procures a child under the age of 16 years to commit an indecent act; or
(c) unlawfully permits himself or herself to be indecently dealt with by a child under the age of 16 years; or
(d) wilfully and unlawfully exposes a child under the age of 16 years to an indecent act by the offender or any other person; or
(e) without legitimate reason, wilfully exposes a child under the age of 16 years to any indecent object or any indecent film, videotape, audiotape, picture, photograph or printed or written matter; or
(f) without legitimate reason, takes any indecent photograph or records, by means of any device, any indecent visual image of a child under the age of 16 years;
is guilty of an indictable offence.
(2) If the child is of or above the age of 12 years, the offender is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.
(3) If the child is under the age of 12 years, the offender is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for 20 years.
(4) If the child is, to the knowledge of the offender, his or her lineal descendant or if the offender is the guardian of the child or, for the time being, has the child under his or her care, the offender is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for 20 years.
(5) If the offence is alleged to have been committed in respect of a child of or above the age of 12 years, it is a defence to prove that the accused person believed, on reasonable grounds, that the child was of or above the age of 16 years.
(6) In this section--
deals with includes doing any act which, if done without consent, would constitute an assault as defined in this Code.