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Version No. 189
Crimes Act 1958 Act No. 6231/1958 Version incorporating amendments as at 1 September 2006
table of provisions
Section Page 1. Short title and commencement 1
2. Repeals and savings 2
2A. Definitions 3
2B. Offences under this Act deemed to be indictable offences 4 Part I-Offences 5 Division 1-Offences against the Person 5 (1) Homicide 5 3. Punishment for murder 5
3A. Unintentional killing in the course or furtherance of a crime of
violence 5
3B. Provocation no longer a partial defence to murder 6
4. Alternative verdict of defensive homicide on charge for murder 6
5. Punishment of manslaughter 6
6. Infanticide 7
6A. Suicide no longer a crime 7
6B. Survivor of suicide pact who kills deceased party is guilty of
manslaughter 7
7. Repealed 9
8. Petit treason 9
9. Provision for trial for murder or manslaughter in Victoria where
death or cause of death only happens in Victoria 10
9AA. Abolition of year-and-a-day rule 10 (1AA) Exceptions to Homicide Offences 11 9AB. Definitions and application of Subdivision 11
9AC. Murder-"self-defence" 11
9AD. Defensive homicide 12
9AE. Manslaughter-"self-defence" 12
9AF. Self-defence exceptions do not apply in the case of lawful conduct 12
9AG. Duress 13
9AH. Family violence 13
9AI. Sudden or extraordinary emergency 17
9AJ. Intoxication 17 (1A) Treasonable Offences 19 9A. Treason 19 (2) Child Destruction 21 10. Offence of child destruction 21 (3) Repealed 22 11-14. Repealed 22 (4) Offences against the person 22 15. Definitions 22
16. Causing serious injury intentionally 24
17. Causing serious injury recklessly 25
18. Causing injury intentionally or recklessly 25
19. Offence to administer certain substances 25
19A. Intentionally causing a very serious disease 26
20. Threats to kill 27
21. Threats to inflict serious injury 27
21A. Stalking 27
22. Conduct endangering life 31
23. Conduct endangering persons 31
24. Negligently causing serious injury 31
25. Setting traps etc. to kill 31
26. Setting traps etc. to cause serious injury 32
27. Extortion with threat to kill 32
28. Extortion with threat to destroy property etc. 32
29. Using firearm to resist arrest etc. 33
30. Threatening injury to prevent arrest 34
31. Assaults 34
31A. Use of firearms in the commission of offences 35
31B. Being armed with criminal intent 36
32. Offence to perform female genital mutilation 36
33. Offence to take a person from the State with the intention of having
prohibited female genital mutilation performed 37
34. Consent not a defence to a charge under sections 32 or 33 38
34A. Exceptions to offences under section 32 38 (5) Corpses 39 34B. Offence to interfere with corpse of a human being 39 (6), (7) Repealed 40
(8) Sexual Offences (General Provisions) 41 35. Definitions 41
36. Meaning of consent 42
37. Jury directions on consent 43 (8A) Rape and Indecent Assault 44 38. Rape 44
39. Indecent assault 45
40. Assault with intent to rape 46
41-43. Repealed 44 (8B) Incest 46 44. Incest 46 (8C) Sexual Offences against Children 48 45. Sexual penetration of child under the age of 16 48
46. Repealed 50
47. Indecent act with child under the age of 16 51
47A. Sexual relationship with child under the age of 16 51
48. Sexual penetration of 16 year old child 53
49. Indecent act with 16 year old child 53
49A. Facilitating sexual offences against children 54 (8D) Sexual Offences against People with Impaired Mental Functioning
55 50. Definitions 55
51. Sexual offences against people with impaired mental
functioning 56
52. Sexual offences against residents of residential facilities 57 (8E) Other Sexual Offences 58 53. Administration of drugs etc. 58
54. Occupier etc. permitting unlawful sexual penetration 58
55. Abduction or detention 59
56. Abduction of child under the age of 16 59
57. Procuring sexual penetration by threats or fraud 60
58. Procuring sexual penetration of child under the age of 16 60
59. Bestiality 61
60. Soliciting acts of sexual penetration or indecent acts 61
60A. Sexual offence while armed with an offensive weapon 62 (8EAA) Sexual Servitude 63 60AB. Sexual servitude 63
60AC. Aggravated sexual servitude 65
60AD. Deceptive recruiting for commercial sexual services 65
60AE. Aggravated deceptive recruiting for commercial sexual services
66 (8EA) Loitering by sexual offender 66 60B. Loitering near schools etc. 66 (8F) Jury Warnings 69 61. Jury warnings 69 (8G) Abrogation of Obsolete Rules of Law 70 62. Abrogation of obsolete rules of law 70 (9) Child Stealing 71 63. Child stealing 71 (9A) Kidnapping 72 63A. Kidnapping 72 (10) Bigamy 72 64. Bigamy 72 (11) Attempts to Procure Abortion 73 65. Abortion 73
66. Supplying or procuring anything to be employed in abortion 73 (12) Concealing the Birth of a Child 74 67. Concealing birth of a child 74 (13) Child Pornography 74 67A. Definitions 74
68. Production of child pornography 76
69. Procurement etc. of minor for child pornography 77
70. Possession of child pornography 78
70AA. Forfeiture 79 (14) Sexual Performances involving a Minor 81 70AB. Definitions 81
70AC. Sexual performance involving a minor 82 Division 1A-Piracy 82 70A. Piracy with violence 82
70B. Piratical acts 83
70C. Trading etc. with pirates 85
70D. Being found on board piratical vessel and unable to prove non-
complicity 85 Division 2-Theft and Similar or Associated Offences 86 71. Definitions 86
72. Basic definition of theft 87
73. Further explanation of theft 87 Theft, robbery, burglary, &c. 91 74. Theft 91
75. Robbery 91
75A. Armed robbery 92
76. Burglary 92
77. Aggravated burglary 93
78. Removal of articles from places open to the public 94
79. Repealed 95
80. Unlawfully taking control of an aircraft 96 Fraud and blackmail 96 80A. Extra-territorial offences 96
81. Obtaining property by deception 97
82. Obtaining financial advantage by deception 98
83. False accounting 99
83A. Falsification of documents 100
83B. Abolition of common law offences of forgery and uttering 104
84. Liability of company officers for certain offences by company 105
85. False statements by company directors etc. 105
86. Suppression etc. of documents 106
87. Blackmail 107 Offences relating to goods stolen, &c. 108 88. Handling stolen goods 108
88A. Alternative counts of theft and handling stolen goods 109
89. Advertising rewards for return of goods stolen or lost 109
90. Scope of offences relating to stolen goods 110 Possession of housebreaking implements, &c. 111 91. Going equipped for stealing etc. 111
92. Search for stolen goods 112
93. Procedure and evidence 113
94. Repealed 114
General and consequential provisions 114 95. Husband and wife 114
96-174. Repealed 115 Secret Commissions Prohibition 115 175. Definitions 115
176. Receipt or solicitation of secret commission by an agent an
indictable offence 118
177. Secret gifts to parent, wife, child, partner etc. of agent deemed
gifts to agent 119
178. Giving or receiving false or misleading receipt or account an
indictable offence 120
179. Gift or receipt of secret commission in return for advice given
120
180. Secret commission to trustee in return for substituted appointment
122
181. Aiding and abetting offences within or outside Victoria 123
182. Liability of directors etc. acting without authority 124
183. Repealed 124
184. Protection of witness giving answers criminating himself 124
185. Stay of proceedings against such witness 125
186. Custom of itself no defence 125 Fraudulently inducing persons to invest 126 187-190. Repealed 126
191. Fraudulently inducing persons to invest money 126
192. Evidence of financial position of company 129 Division 2A-Money Laundering etc. 129 193. Definitions 129
194. Dealing with proceeds of crime 131
195. Dealing with property suspected of being proceeds of crime 131
195A. Dealing with property which subsequently becomes an instrument
of crime 132 Division 3-Criminal Damage to Property 133 (1) General Offences and Procedural Provisions 133 196. Definition 133
197. Destroying or damaging property 134
197A. Arson causing death 136
198. Threats to destroy or damage property 136
199. Possessing anything with intent to destroy or damage property 136
200. Repealed 137
201. Lawful excuse 137
201A. Intentionally or recklessly causing a bushfire 139
202. Jurisdiction of magistrates' courts 140
203-205. Repealed 140 (2) Injuries to Buildings &c. by Rioters and Forcible Entries and Detainers
141 206. Rioters demolishing buildings 141
207. Forcible entry 142
208-224. Repealed 143 (3) Interference with Mines, Sea Banks &c., Railways and Navigation Aids
144 225. Conveying water into a mine 144
226, 227. Repealed 144
228. Removing etc. piles of sea banks 145
229-231. Repealed 145
232. Placing things on railways to obstruct or overturn engine etc.
145
233. Obstructing engine, carriage etc. on railway 146
234-243. Repealed 146
244. Altering signals or exhibiting false ones 147
245. Removing buoy etc. 147
246. Repealed 1