Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

Section 3

CHAPTER 8 - OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND RELATED OFFENCES  

Division 268 - Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the administration of the justice of the International Criminal Court  

Subdivision E - Other serious war crimes that are committed in the course of an international armed conflict  

SECTION 268.54  

268.54   War crime - pillaging  
A person (the perpetrator ) commits an offence if:

(a) the perpetrator appropriates certain property; and

(b) the perpetrator intends to deprive the owner of the property and to appropriate it for private or personal use; and

(c) the appropriation is without the consent of the owner; and

(d) the perpetrator ' s conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an international armed conflict.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 15 years.