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Criminal Code Act Compilation Act 1913
Part 6Criminal liability of officers of bodies corporate
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Chapter 6 — Criminal liability of officers of bodies corporate
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Overview 60
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Term used: officer 61
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Officer liability for corporate offence: onus on prosecution to prove reasonable steps not taken 61
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Officer liability for corporate offence: onus on prosecution to prove reasonable steps not taken if evidence suggesting reasonable steps adduced 62
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Officer liability for corporate offence: onus on officer to prove reasonable steps taken 62
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Further provisions relating to criminal liability of officers of bodies corporate 63
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Penalties 64
Part II — Offences against public order
Chapter VII — Sedition
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Term used: seditious intention 65
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Acts excepted from s. 44 65
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Terms used: seditious enterprise, seditious words, seditious writing 66
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Oath to kill person 66
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Other unlawful oaths 67
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Compulsion, how far a defence to s. 47 and 48 68
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Unlawful military activities 68
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Sedition 69
Chapter VIII — Offences against the executive and legislative power
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Interfering with Governor or Ministers 70
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Interfering with legislature 70
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Disturbing Parliament 71
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False evidence before Parliament 71
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Threatening witness before Parliament 71
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Witness not attending or giving evidence before Parliament 72
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Member of Parliament receiving bribe 73
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Bribery of member of Parliament 73
Chapter IX — Unlawful assemblies: Breaches of the peace
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Terms used: unlawful assembly, riot, riotously assembled 74
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Taking part in an unlawful assembly 75
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Unlawful assembly may be ordered to disperse 75
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Taking part in riot 75
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Rioters may be ordered to disperse 75
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Rioters causing damage 76
68A. Provisions about lawful excuses under s. 68B, 68C, 68D and 68E 76
68B. Being armed in or near place of public entertainment 77
68C. Being armed in public in company 78
68D. Having ready access to both weapon and cash 78
68E. Having ready access to both weapon and illegal drug 79
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Being armed in a way that may cause fear 79
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Forcibly entering land 80
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Forcibly keeping possession of land 80
70B. Trespasser may be asked for name and address 84
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Fighting in public causing fear 85
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Challenge to fight duel 85
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Prize fight 85
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Threat toward dwelling 86
74A. Disorderly behaviour in public 86
74B. Causing fear or alarm to driver of conveyance or others 87
75A. Term used: out‑of‑control gathering 87
75B. Organising out‑of‑control gathering 90
Chapter X — Offences against political liberty
- Interfering with political liberty 91
Chapter XI — Racist harassment and incitement to racial hatred
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Terms used 92
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Conduct intended to incite racial animosity or racist harassment 93
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Conduct likely to incite racial animosity or racist harassment 93
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Possession of material for dissemination with intent to incite racial animosity or racist harassment 93
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Possession of material for dissemination that is likely to incite racial animosity or racist harassment 94
80A. Conduct intended to racially harass 94
80B. Conduct likely to racially harass 95
80C. Possession of material for display with intent to racially harass 95
80D. Possession of material for display that is likely to racially harass 96
80E. Conduct and private conduct, meaning of in s. 77, 78, 80A and 80B 96
80F. Belief as to existence or membership of racial group 96
80G. Defences to s. 78, 80, 80B or 80D charge 97
80H. Consent to prosecution under s. 77, 78, 79 or 80 required 98
80I. Term used: circumstances of racial aggravation 98
80J. Unlawful material, forfeiture of 98