Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Any person who takes or entices away, or detains a child who is under the prescribed age and is not the husband or wife of that person for the purpose of any person, whether a particular person or not, doing an act in relation to the child (a proscribed act) defined to constitute an offence in section 208, 210 or 215 is guilty of a crime.
(2) If the child is of or above the age of 12 years, the offender is liable to imprisonment for 10 years.
(3) If the child is under the age of 12 years, the offender is liable to imprisonment—
(a) for life, where the proscribed act is one defined to constitute an offence in section 208 or 215; or
(b) for 14 years in any other case.
(4) If the proscribed act is one defined to constitute an offence defined in section 208 and the child is of or above 12 years, it is a defence to prove that the accused person believed, on reasonable grounds, the child was of or above 18 years.
(5) If the proscribed act is one defined to constitute an offence defined in section 210 or 215 and the child is of or above 12 years, it is a defence to prove that the accused person believed, on reasonable grounds, the child was of or above 16 years.
(6) In this section—
prescribed age means—
(a) for an offence defined in section 208—18 years; or
(b) for an offence defined in section 210 or 215—16 years.