South Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 172

172—Blackmail

        (1)         A person who menaces another intending to get the other to submit to a demand is guilty of blackmail.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         for a basic offence—imprisonment for 15 years;

            (b)         for an aggravated offence—imprisonment for 20 years.

        (2)         The object of the demand is irrelevant.

Examples—

1         The person who makes the demand may be demanding marriage or access to children.

2         The person who makes the demand may be seeking to influence the performance of a public duty.