S 25 repealed by No 67 of 2018, s 3 and Sch 1 item 43, effective 30 June 2018. S 25 formerly read:
SECTION 25 Inciting mutiny
(1)
Any person who intentionally attempts:
(a)
to seduce any person serving in the Queen
'
s Forces from his duty and allegiance; or
(b)
to incite any person serving in the Queen
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s Forces to commit an act of mutiny, or any traitorous or mutinous act; or
(c)
to incite any person serving in the Queen
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s Forces to make or endeavour to make a mutinous assembly;
commits an indictable offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for life.
History
S 25(1) amended by No 4 of 2016, s 3 and Sch 4 item 345, by substituting
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commits
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for
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shall be guilty of
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, effective 10 March 2016.
S 25(1) amended by No 24 of 2001, s 3 and Sch 10 item 29, by substituting
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intentionally
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for
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knowingly
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. For application provisions, see note under s 3BA.
(2)
In this section the expression
"
person serving in the Queen
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s Forces
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includes any person serving in an arm of the Defence Force of Australia or in the armed forces of the United Kingdom or any British possession.
(3)
In subsection (2):
British possession
means any part of the Sovereign
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s dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom, and where parts of such dominions are under both a central and a local legislature all parts under the central legislature are, for the purposes of this definition, taken to be one British possession.
History
S 25(3) inserted by No 46 of 2011, s 3 and Sch 2 item 456, effective 27 December 2011. For saving and transitional provisions see note under s 4AAA(1).
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