Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 27

A person who makes a demand of another person—

        (a)     with a threat to kill or inflict injury on a person (other than the offender or an accomplice of the offender); or

        (b)     with a threat in circumstances where, if the threat were carried out, the life of a person (other than the offender or an accomplice of the offender) would be endangered—

is guilty of an indictable offence.

Penalty:     Level 4 imprisonment (15 years maximum).

S. 28 substituted by No. 10233 s. 8(2), amended by Nos 49/1991 s. 119(1)
(Sch. 2 item 12), 48/1997
s. 60(1)(Sch. 1 item 14).