CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT.
Act No. 2, 1929.
An Act to amend the criminal law, and for that purpose to repeal the Crimes (Amendment) Act, 1905, and to amend the Crimes Act,
1900, and certain other Acts ; and for pur
poses connected therewith. [Assented to,
12th March, 1929.]
| lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South | B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis |
| Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— | |
| 1 . This Act may be cited as the " Crimes (Amend ment) Act, 1929." | |
| 2 . The Crimes Act, 1900, as subsequently amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. | |
| 3 . The Crimes (Amendment) Act, 1905, is hereby repealed. |
other of such takings. 4 . Section twenty-two of the Principal Act is
amended by omitting the words " for the murder of a child," and by substituting therefor the words " for the murder or manslaughter of a child."
Section one hundred and nineteen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the proviso to the section and by substituting therefor the following new proviso :—
5 .
Provided always that evidence shall not in any
such case be given of any taking which occurred
more than six months in point of time from any6 . Section one hundred and twenty of the Principal Act is amended by b serting after the words " the offence of embezzlement" the words " o r fraudulent misappropriation."
7. The Principal Act is further amended by inserting after section one hundred and seventy-eight the fol lowing new sub-heading and section :—
FRAUDULENT MISAPPROPRIATION.
178A. Whosoever having collected or received any money or valuable security under any authority upon terms requiring him to deliver or account for or pay to any person the whole or any part of—-
(a) such money or valuable security or the proceeds thereof; or (b) any balance of such money, valuable security, or proceeds thereof after any authorised deductions or payments have been made thereout, fraudulently misappropriates to his own use or the use of any other person, or fraudulently omits to account for or pay the whole or any part of such money, valuable security, or proceeds, or the whole or any part of such balance in violation of the terms on which lie collected or received such money or valuable security, shall be liable to penal servi tude for seven years.
For the purposes of this section any such money, valuable security, or proceeds thereof, or any balance thereout shall be deemed to be the pro perty of the person under whose authority the
money or valuable security was collected or received notwithstanding that the accused may have been authorised to make any deduction thereout on his own behalf, or any payment thereout to another person, or to mix such money, valuable security, or proceeds thereof, or such balance with his…