54AB

Criminal offence for damaging etc. documents

Current

(1)

A person commits an offence if:

(a)

the person damages, destroys, alters, conceals or falsifies a document; and

(b)

the document is created, retained or issued for the purposes of this Act, or for purposes that include the purposes of this Act.

Penalty: 7 years imprisonment or 2,000 penalty units, or both.

Note:

For the liability of an executive officer of a body corporate, see sections 54B and 54BA.

(2)

Strict liability applies to paragraph (1)(b).

Note:

For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.

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