Criminal Code Act 1983

(a) with intent to extort or gain anything from or procure anything to be done or omitted to be done by a person by a demand containing threats of injury or detriment to be caused to a person, either by the offender or another person, if the demand is not complied with, takes or entices away or detains the person in respect of whom the threats are made; or

(b) receives, confines or detains the person in respect of whom the threats are made, knowing the person to have been so taken or enticed away or detained,

is guilty of an offence that is called kidnapping for ransom.

(2) Any person who commits the offence of kidnapping for ransom is liable to imprisonment for 20 years.

(3) If the person kidnapped has been set at liberty without having suffered serious harm, the offender is liable to imprisonment for 10 years.