Receiving or soliciting a cash or in kind payment
536G Receiving or soliciting a cash or in kind payment
A person (the defendant) commits an offence if:
the defendant:
requests (whether or not expressly and whether or not by threats); or
receives or obtains; or
agrees to receive or obtain;
a cash or in kind payment from a person (the provider) for the defendant or another person; and
the defendant is an employee organisation or an officer (within the meaning of the Registered Organisations Act) or employee of an employee organisation; and
the provider is a national system employer other than an employee organisation; and
the provider, a spouse (within the meaning of the Registered Organisations Act) or associated entity of the provider, or a person who has a prescribed connection with the provider, employs a person who is, or is entitled to be, a member of the organisation and whose industrial interests the organisation is entitled to represent.
Penalty:
for an individual—imprisonment for 2 years or 500 penalty units, or both; or
for a body corporate—2,500 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a cash or in kind payment mentioned in subsection 536F(3).
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