Crimes Act 1900 No 40
Historical version for 14 March 1997 to 27 March 1997 (accessed 20 May 2013 at 19:13) Current version
Part 3AbductionSection 90A

90A   Kidnapping

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 a person so led, taken or enticed away or detained.

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