Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 539

539 Attempts to procure commission of criminal acts

(1) Any person who attempts to procure another—

(a) to do an act or make an omission in Queensland; or

(b) to do an act or make an omission outside Queensland;

being an act or omission of such a nature that, if the act were done or the omission made, an offence would thereby be committed—

(c) in the case referred to in paragraph (a) —under the laws of Queensland; or

(d) in the case referred to in paragraph (b) —under the laws in force in the place where the act or omission is proposed to be done or made;

whether by himself, herself or by the other person, is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if the person had attempted to do the same act or make the same omission in Queensland.

(1A) However, in the case referred to in subsection (1) (b) , the punishment can not exceed that which the person would have incurred under the laws in force where the act or omission was proposed to be done or made, if the person had attempted to do the proposed act or make the proposed omission.

(2) Any person who, while out of Queensland, attempts to procure another to do an act or make an omission in Queensland of such a nature that, if the person had done the act or made the omission in Queensland, the person would have been guilty of an offence is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if the person had attempted to do the act or make the omission in Queensland.