South Australia – Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935

Retrieved March 2021, reference: https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/CRIMINAL%20LAW%20CONSOLIDATION%20ACT%201935.aspx

 

Part 9—Miscellaneous and procedure

Division 1—Punishment for certain common law offences

270—Punishment for certain offences

(1)    Any person convicted of any of the following common law offences, that is to say:

(b)    keeping a common bawdy house or a common ill-governed and disorderly house;

(c)     any cheat or fraud punishable at common law,

shall be liable to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years.

(2)    Any person convicted of any of the following common law offences, that is to say, any conspiracy to cheat or defraud, or to extort money or goods, or falsely to accuse of any crime, or to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of public justice, shall be liable to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding seven years.