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CRIMINAL CODE 1924 - SECT 297

   Conspiracy
(1)  Any person who conspires with another –
(a) to kill any person, whether a subject of His Majesty or not, and whether he is in this State or elsewhere, under circumstances which, if he were killed in this State, would constitute murder;
(b) to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat the due course of justice, or the administration of the law, whether such purpose is to be effected in this State or elsewhere;
(c) to commit any crime;
(d) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  
(e) to extort, by any means, any property whatever from any person;
(f) to inflict by any unlawful means any injury or harm upon the public, or any particular person or class of persons;
(g) to facilitate the seduction of a woman;
(h) to do any act involving, and known to be likely to involve, public mischief; or
(i) to do any act without lawful justification or excuse with intent thereby to injure any person –
is guilty of a crime.
Charge:  Conspiracy.
(2)  Married persons are not criminally responsible for any conspiracy between themselves only.
(3)  Nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of the Trades Unions Act 1889 .



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