Crimes Act 1961

115 Conspiring to bring false accusation

• Every one who conspires to prosecute any person for any alleged offence, knowing that person to be innocent thereof, is liable—

  • (a) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years if that person might, on conviction of the alleged offence, be sentenced to preventive detention, or to imprisonment for a term of 3 years or more:

  • (b) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years if that person might, on conviction of the alleged offence, be sentenced to imprisonment for a term less than 3 years.

  Compare: 1908 No 32 s 136

  Section 115(a): amended, on 26 December 1989, by section 3(4) of the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act 1989 (1989 No 119).