| No. 32.] | Criminal Code—Amendment. | [1918. |
CRIMINAL CODE AMEND-
MENT.
9° Crno. V., No. XXII.
No. 32 of 1918.
AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code.
[Assented to 24th December, 1918.j
Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inDE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows:—
| Short title. | 1. This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code Amend- |
ment Act, 1918.
Amendment of
| Section" 18. | 2. Section eighteen of the Criminal Code (hereinafter |
called "the Code") is hereby amended- by the deletion of
the words "preventive detention" and the substitution of
the words "detention in a reformatory prison."
Amendment of
| Section 19. | 3. Section nineteen of the Code is hereby amended by the insertion, after paragraph six, of the following paragraph:- 6a. If any child or young person under the age of eighteen years is convicted on indictment of any offence punishable with imprisonment, the Court. in lieu of sen- tencing him to imprisonment, may order him to be sent to an industrial school (as defined in the State Children Act, 1907) until he is eighteen years of age, or until the expiry of two years from the date of the conviction, which- ever period shall be the longer, and such child or young person may by virtue of the order be dealt with as is pro- vided in the State Children Act, 1907, with reference to children sent to industrial schools, and the relative pro- |
visions of that Act shall apply to him accordingly.
| 1918.] | Criminal Code—Amendment. | [No. 32. |
4. Section one hundred and eighty-two of the Code is Amendment of
hereby amended by omitting the words "the offender cannot Section 182.
be arrested without warrant."
5. Section one hundred and eighty-five of the Code is Amendment of
| hereby amended by the substitution, in the second paragraph, section | 185. |
| of the word "crime" for the word "misdemeanour," and of the word "fourteen' for the word "three," and by the re- peal of the third paragraph thereof. |
6. Section one hundred and eighty-seven of the Code is Repeal ofSec.
hereby repealed, and the words "or one hundred and eighty- seven," in section two hundred and six of the Code, are hereby excised.
7. (1.) Section one hundred and eighty-eight of the Code Repeal of see.
| hereby repealed, and the following sections inserted in DtMt8Wtonn of | w |
| ne | provisions. |
lieu thereof:-
187. (1.) Any person who has or attempts to have Defilement of
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unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of Mitg.d
sixteen years is guilty of a crime, and is liable to im-
prisonment with hard labour for five years with or with-
out whipping:
Provided that if the offender's age does not exceed twenty-one years he is guilty of a misdemeanour and liable to imprisonment with hard labour for two years, with or without whipping.
(2.)