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Criminal Code Act 1983
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194 Kidnapping for ransom
(a) with intent to extort or gain anything from or procure anything
to be done or omitted to be done by a person by a demand
containing threats of injury or detriment to be caused to a
person, either by the offender or another person, if the
demand is not complied with, takes or entices away or detains
the person in respect of whom the threats are made; or
(b) receives, confines or detains the person in respect of whom
the threats are made, knowing the person to have been so
taken or enticed away or detained,
is guilty of an offence that is called kidnapping for ransom.
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(2) Any person who commits the offence of kidnapping for ransom is
liable to imprisonment for 20 years.
(3) If the person kidnapped has been set at liberty without having
suffered serious harm, the offender is liable to imprisonment for
10 years.