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Criminal Code Act 1924
257Concealing mining discoveries
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257 Concealing mining discoveries
Any person who, with intent to defraud any co-partner or other person having a joint interest with him in any mine or mining tenement or any place that is being or is intended to be worked, searched, or prospected for any valuable substance or thing, conceals from any such person any valuable discovery made, or any substance or thing found therein or thereon, is guilty of a crime.
Charge: Fraudulently concealing a mining discovery.