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Part 11Offences
171 Destroying evidence
A person who, knowing that a document or other thing is or may be required by the Commission or Parliamentary Inspector, wilfully destroys it or renders it illegible or undecipherable or incapable of identification, with the intention of preventing it from being effectively used in evidence, is guilty of an offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years and a fine of $60 000.
[Section 171 inserted: No. 78 of 2003 s. 22.]
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