Schedule
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The Criminal Code
Section
3
CHAPTER 4
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THE INTEGRITY AND SECURITY OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS
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CCH Note:
Subdiv A heading will be inserted by No 5 of 2024, s 3 and Sch 1 item 1, applicable in relation to conduct engaged in on or after 8 September 2024. The heading will read:
Subdivision A
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Definitions
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Division 71
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Offences against United Nations and associated personnel
SECTION 71.12
71.12
Threatening to commit other offences
A person commits an offence if the person:
(a)
threatens to commit an offence (the
threatened offence
) under any of sections
71.2
to
71.11
; and
(b)
intends to compel any other person to do or omit to do an act by making the threat.
Penalty:
(a) if the threatened offence is the offence under section
71.2
(murder of a UN or associated person)
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imprisonment for 10 years; or
(b) if the threatened offence is the offence under section
71.3
,
71.4
,
71.5
,
71.8
or
71.9
(manslaughter of, causing serious harm to, kidnapping, or sexually penetrating, a UN or associated person)
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imprisonment for 7 years; or
(c) if the threatened offence is the offence under section
71.6
or
71.11
(causing harm to, or damaging the property etc. of, a UN or associated person)
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imprisonment for 5 years; or
(d) if the threatened offence is the offence under section
71.7
or
71.10
(recklessly causing harm to, or unlawful detention of, a UN or associated person)
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imprisonment for 3 years.
Note:
Section
71.23
defines
UN or associated person
.
History
S 71.12 amended by No 61 of 2016, s 3 and Sch 2 item 16, by substituting
"
Penalty
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for
"
Maximum penalty
"
in the penalty, effective 21 October 2016.