Section 115 — Crimes Act 1961: Conspiring to bring false accusation

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 Paragraph (a) was amended, as from 26 December 1989, by section 3(4) Abolition of the Death Penalty Act 1989 (1989 No 119) by omitting the words “ to death, or ” .