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Criminal Code Amendment Ordinance 1935

THE ISLAND OF NAURU

No. 4 of 1935

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Criminal Code of Queensland in its application
to the Territory, and for other purposes.

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Island of Nauru, do hereby enact, order and proclaim as under:-

Short title.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Code Amendment Ordinance 1935.

Definition.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the contrary intention appears-

"the Criminal Code" means the First Schedule of the Criminal Code Act 1899 of the State of Queensland as in force in the Territory.

3. Sections two hundred and seventeen to two hundred and nineteen inclusive of the Criminal Code are repealed and the following sections inserted in their stead:-

Procuring girl or woman.

"217. Whosoever procures, entices or leads away any girl or woman, whether with her consent or not, with intent that some other person may have carnal knowledge of her, either within or without the Territory shall, notwithstanding that some one or more of the acts constituting the offence may have been committed outside the Territory, be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Imprisonment for seven years.

Procuring girl or woman by drugs, etc.

"218. Whosoever by means of any fraud, violence, threat or abuse of authority, or, by the use of any drug or intoxicating liquor, procures, entices or leads away any girl or woman, either within or without the Territory, shall, notwithstanding that some one or more of the acts constituting the offence may have been committed outside the Territory, be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Imprisonment for ten years.".

GIVEN under my Hand at Administration Head-Quarters, Nauru, Central Pacific, this sixteenth day of November in the year One thousand nine hundred and thirty-five.

RUPERT C. GARSIA,
Administrator of the Island of Nauru.

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