WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
CRIMINAL CODE.
No. 49 of 1975.
AN ACT to amend Chapters III and LXIX and section 719 of The Criminal Code.
[Assented to 18th September, 1975.]
BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Criminal
| Code Amendment Act, 1975. | Short title. |
| (2) In this Act "the Code" means The Criminal Code set out in the Criminal Code Act, 1913, appear- ing in Appendix B to the Criminal Code Compilation Act, 1913 as reprinted with amendments up to and including Act No. 19 of 1973 |
| No. 49] | Criminal Code. | [1975. |
Section 14A
| added. | 2. Chapter III of the Code is amended by adding |
after section 14 the following new section-
Offences
| committed | 14A. (1) Any person connected with Western Australia who, while in on under or over the high seas within one hundred miles of Western Australia, does any act or makes any omission of such a nature that if he had done the act or made the omission in Western Australia he would have been guilty of an offence against the statute law of Western Australia is guilty of an offence and shall be liable to arrest, prosecution and punishment in all respects as if such act or omission had occurred in Western Australia and the courts of Western Australia shall have jurisdiction accordingly. |
| on high | |
| seas. | |
| (2) For the purposes of this section a person connected with Western Australia includes a person who- |
| (a) | is or is normally resident or is domiciled in Western Australia; or |
| (b) | is on or operating from a vessel, aircraft, rig or other structure or installation of any kind licensed or required to be licensed or operating or functioning pursuant to the authority of, or as regulated by, a law of Western Australia. |
(3) Any person who, having while in on under or over the high seas within one hundred miles of Western Australia done any act or made any omission affecting the person or property of a person connected with Western Australia of such a nature that if he had done the act or made the omission in Western Australia he would have been guilty of an offence against the statute law of Western Australia afterwards comes into Western Australia, is by such coming into Western Australia guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if he had done the act or made the omission in Western Australia. .
| 1975.] | Criminal Code. | [No. 49. |
Section 688
| 3. Section 688 of the Code is amended | amended. |
| (a) | by deleting the passage "indictment." in the last line of paragraph (c) of subsection (2) and substituting the passage "indict- ment; or"; and |
| (b) | by deleting paragraph (d) of subsection (2) and substituting the… |