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Criminal Code Act 1983
280Attempts to procure commission of criminal offences
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280 Attempts to procure commission of criminal offences
(1) Any person who attempts to procure another to do any act, make
any omission or cause any event, whether in the Territory or
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elsewhere, of such a nature that, if the act were done or the
omission were made or the event were caused, an offence would
thereby be committed under the laws of the Territory or the laws in
force in the place where the act, omission or event is proposed to
be done, made or caused whether by himself or by that other
person, is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the
same punishment as if he had himself attempted to do the same
act, make the same omission or cause the same event in the
(2) If the act, omission or event is proposed to be done, made or
caused at a place not in the Territory, the punishment cannot
exceed that which he would have incurred under the laws in force
where the act, omission or event was proposed to be done, made
or caused if he had himself attempted to do the proposed act, make
the proposed omission or cause the proposed event.
(3) A prosecution with respect to a matter referred to in subsection (2)
cannot be instituted except at the request of the government of the
state having jurisdiction in the place where the act, omission or
event was proposed to be done, made or caused.