Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 538

538 Reduction of punishment

(1) When a person is convicted of attempting to commit an offence, if it is proved that the person desisted of the person’s own motion from the further prosecution of the person’s intention, without its fulfilment being prevented by circumstances independent of the person’s will, the person is liable to one-half only of the punishment to which the person would otherwise be liable.

(2) If the punishment to which the person would otherwise be liable for the attempt is imprisonment for life, the greatest punishment to which the person is liable is imprisonment for 14 years.