CRIMES (AMENDMENT) ACT.
Act No. 70, 1961.
An Act to make provisions with respect to kidnapping, obtaining credit by fraud and the admissibility of certain evidence as to credit, reputation or character of persons charged; to amend the Crimes Act, 1900, as amended by subsequent Acts; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 15th December, 1961.]
| BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative | Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in |
| Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : — |
This Act may be cited as the "Crimes (Amendment)
| Act, | 1961" . |
2. The Crimes Act, 1900, as amended by subsequent Acts, is amended—
(a) by inserting next after section ninety the following new section : — 90A. Whosoever leads takes or entices away or detains a person with intent to hold him for ransom or for any other advantage to any person shall be liable to penal servitude for twenty years or, if it is proved to the satisfaction of the judge that the person so led taken enticed away or detained was thereafter liberated without having sustained any substantial injury, to penal servitude for fourteen years.
This section does not apply to any person who shall, in good faith, have claimed a right to the possession of the person so led, taken or enticed away or detained.
(b)
(b)
by inserting next after section 178B the following new short heading and section : —
OBTAINING CREDIT BY FRAUD.
178c. Whosoever incurring any debt or liability obtains credit by any false pretence or by any wilfully false promise or partly by a false pretence and partly by a wilfully false promise or by any other fraud shall be liable to imprisonment for one year.
(c)
by inserting in subsection two of section three hundred and forty-nine after the word "persons," the words "or the crime of kidnapping referred to in section 90A of this Act,";
(d)
by inserting in paragraph (f) of section four hundred and seventy-seven after the figures and letter "178B , " the figures and letter "178c , " ;
(e)
by inserting in paragraph (c) of subsection one of section five hundred and one after the words "one hundred and fifty-two," the figures and letter " 1 7 8 c " ;
(f)
by inserting next after section five hundred and seventy-eight the following new section : —
579. (1) Where, following the conviction of
any person for an offence or a finding that a charge of an offence has been proved against any person, whether the conviction or finding was before or after the commencement of the Crimes (Amend
ment) Act, 1 9 6 1 —
(a)
sentence in respect of the conviction was suspended or deferred upon the person entering into a recognizance or, in substitu tion for sentence in respect of the conviction, the person was required to enter into a…