South Australia
Kidnapping Act 1960
An Act to make provision for the punishment of kidnapping and for other purposes.

Contents
1	Short title
2	Kidnapping
Legislative history

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Kidnapping Act 1960.
2—Kidnapping
	(1)	Any person who, whether for ransom, reward, service or for any similar purpose, unlawfully leads, takes, decoys, inveigles or entices away, abducts, seizes, carries off or detains any person without his consent or with his consent obtained by fraud or duress to the intent that or whereby such person may be or is held, confined or imprisoned or prevented from returning to his normal place of abode or sent or taken out of the State shall be guilty of an offence and liable to be imprisoned for life.
	(2)	A person under the age of eighteen years shall be deemed incapable of consenting to being led, taken, decoyed, inveigled or enticed away, abducted, seized, carried off, detained, held confined or imprisoned.

Legislative history
Notes
	•	Please note—References in the legislation to other legislation or instruments or to titles of bodies or offices are not automatically updated as part of the program for the revision and publication of legislation and therefore may be obsolete.
	•	Earlier versions of this Act (historical versions) are listed at the end of the legislative history.
	•	For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes.
Repeal of Act
The Kidnapping Act 1960 was repealed by s 27 of the Statutes Amendment and Repeal (Aggravated Offences) Act 2005 on 15.5.2006.
Principal Act and amendments
Year	No	Title	Assent	Commencement	
1960	51	Kidnapping Act 1960	24.11.1960	24.11.1960	
1971	58	Corporal Punishment Abolition Act 1971	14.10.1971	18.11.1971 (Gazette 18.11.1971 p2070)	
1994	59	Criminal Law Consolidation (Felonies and Misdemeanours) Amendment Act 1994	27.10.1994	1.1.1995 (Gazette 8.12.1994 p1942)	
2002	26	Criminal Law Consolidation (Offences of Dishonesty) Amendment Act 2002	31.10.2002	Sch 3 (cl 5)—5.7.2003 (Gazette 15.5.2003 p1979)	
Provisions amended since 3 February 1976
	•	Legislative history prior to 3 February 1976 appears in marginal notes and footnotes included in the consolidation of this Act contained in Volume 5 of The Public General Acts of South Australia 1837-1975 at page 433.
Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.
Provision	How varied	Commencement	
s 2			
s 2(1)	amended by 59/1994 Sch 2	1.1.1995	
s 3	amended by 59/1994 Sch 2	1.1.1995	
	deleted by 26/2002 s 19(2) (Sch 3 cl 5)	5.7.2003	
Historical versions
Reprint No 1—1.1.1995