Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 131

131 Conspiracy to bring false accusation

(1) Any person who conspires with another to charge any person or cause any person to be charged with any offence, whether alleged to have been committed in Queensland, or elsewhere, knowing that such person is innocent of the alleged offence, or not believing the person to be guilty of the alleged offence, is guilty of a crime.

(2) If the offence is such that a person convicted of it is liable to be sentenced to imprisonment for life, the offender is liable to imprisonment for life.

(3) If the offence is such that a person convicted of it is liable to be sentenced to imprisonment, but for a term less than life, the offender is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.

(4) In any other case the offender is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.

(5) The offender can not be arrested without warrant.

(6) A prosecution for an offence defined in this section shall not be instituted without the consent of the Attorney-General.