Criminal Code Act 1924
102Compounding crimes
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102 Compounding crimes
(1) Any person who solicits, receives, or obtains, or agrees to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person, as a consideration for any agreement or understanding that he will compound or conceal a crime, or will abstain from, discontinue, or delay a prosecution for a crime, is guilty of a crime.
Charge: Compounding a crime.
(2) This section shall not apply to any case of common assault or defamation of a private person, or to any case where the court in which any proceedings have been taken in respect of the crime compounded shall have sanctioned any such agreement as aforesaid.