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Criminal Code Act 1983
278Punishment of attempts to commit offences
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278 Punishment of attempts to commit offences
(1) Any person who attempts to commit an indictable offence of such a
kind that a person found guilty of it is liable to the punishment of
imprisonment for life or of imprisonment for 14 years or longer is
liable, if no other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for
(2) Any person who attempts to commit any other offence is liable, if no
other punishment is provided, to a punishment equal to one-half of
the greatest punishment to which an offender found guilty of the
offence that he attempted to commit is liable.