Criminal Code (Looting in Declared Areas) Amendment Bill 2014* (Qld)

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Queensland

Criminal Code (Looting in Declared Areas) Amendment Bill 2014

Queensland

Criminal Code (Looting in Declared Areas) Amendment Bill 2014

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Amendment of s 398 (Punishment of stealing) .............. 4

A Bill

for An Act to amend the Criminal Code for a particular purpose

Criminal Code (Looting in Declared Areas) Amendment Bill 2014

[s 1]

The Parliament of Queensland enacts—

Clause 1

Clause 2

Clause 3

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code (Looting in Declared Areas) Amendment Act 2014.

Code amended

This Act amends the Criminal Code.

Amendment of s 398 (Punishment of stealing) (1) Section 398, punishment in special cases, clause 13—

insert—

(c) the offence is committed in an area that at

a

the time of the commission of the offence is declared area under the Disaster

Management Act 2003; or

(d) the following applies—

(i)

(ii)

the thing stolen is left unattended because the person in possession of the property was required to leave it unattended to comply with a direction given by a person exercising a power under the Disaster Management Act 2003;

it is not clear whether the thing stolen was stolen—

(A) during the period when the place from which it was stolen was in a declared area; or

(B) after that period but before the person returned to the thing;

(2) Section 398, punishment in special cases, clause 13—

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Criminal Code (Looting in Declared Areas) Amendment Bill 2014

insert—

(2)

[s 3]

A certificate by the chief executive of the department in which the Disaster Management Act 2003 is administered stating any of the following matters is evidence of the matter—

(a) a stated area was a declared area under the Disaster Management Act 2003 during a stated period;