Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p173
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 173/268)
Character Range: 803752–806453

A person may be convicted of an offence against this section involving all or any part of a general deficiency in money even though the deficiency is made up of any number of particular sums of money that were obtained over a period of time.
 (14) A person may be convicted of an offence against this section involving all or any part of a general deficiency in property other than money even though the deficiency is made up of any number of particular items of property that were obtained over a period of time.

Alternative verdicts
 (15) If, in a prosecution for an offence of theft, the trier of fact is not satisfied that the defendant is guilty of the offence, but is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of an offence against this section, the trier of fact may find the defendant not guilty of the offence of theft but guilty of the offence against this section, so long as the defendant has been accorded procedural fairness in relation to that finding of guilt.
 (16) If, in a prosecution for an offence against this section, the trier of fact is not satisfied that the defendant is guilty of the offence, but is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of an offence of theft, the trier of fact may find the defendant not guilty of the offence against this section but guilty of the offence of theft, so long as the defendant has been accorded procedural fairness in relation to that finding of guilt.

134.2  Obtaining a financial advantage by deception
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person, by a deception, dishonestly obtains a financial advantage from another person; and
 (b) the other person is a Commonwealth entity.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
 (2) Absolute liability applies to the paragraph (1)(b) element of the offence.

134.3  Geographical jurisdiction
  Section 15.4 (extended geographical jurisdiction—category D) applies to each offence against this Division.

Division 135—Other offences involving fraudulent conduct

135.1  General dishonesty

Obtaining a gain
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person does anything with the intention of dishonestly obtaining a gain from another person; and
 (b) the other person is a Commonwealth entity.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
 (2) In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1), it is not necessary to prove that the defendant knew that the other person was a Commonwealth entity.

Causing a loss
 (3) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person does anything with the intention of dishonestly causing a loss to another person; and
 (b) the other person is a Commonwealth entity.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
 (4) In a