Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132:section:38
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 38
Character Range: 1297914–1298637

38  Deceiving witnesses
 (1) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
 (a) the first person:
 (i) practises any fraud or deceit to a person called, or to be called, as a witness in a judicial proceeding; or
 (ii) makes or exhibits any false statement, representation, token or writing to a person called, or to be called, as a witness in a judicial proceeding; and
 (b) the first person does so with the intention of affecting the testimony of the other person; and
 (c) the judicial proceeding is a federal judicial proceeding.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
 (2) Absolute liability applies to the paragraph (1)(c) element of the offence.
Note: For absolute liability, see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code.