Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 443C

443C Offering or giving benefit, or causing or threatening detriment, to engage in match-fixing conduct or match-fixing arrangement

(1) A person who, as an inducement for any person to engage in, or to procure any other person to engage in, match-fixing conduct or participate in a match-fixing arrangement in relation to a sporting event or the happening of a sporting contingency—

(a) offers or gives any person a pecuniary benefit; or

(b) causes, or offers or threatens to cause, a pecuniary detriment to any person;

commits a crime.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—10 years imprisonment.

(2) For subsection (1) , it does not matter whether any person engages in the match-fixing conduct.