Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p174
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 174/268)
Character Range: 806222–808977

(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 prosecution for an offence against subsection (3), it is not necessary to prove that the defendant knew that the other person was a Commonwealth entity.
 (5) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person dishonestly causes a loss, or dishonestly causes a risk of loss, to another person; and
 (b) the first‑mentioned person knows or believes that the loss will occur or that there is a substantial risk of the loss occurring; and
 (c) the other person is a Commonwealth entity.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
 (6) Absolute liability applies to the paragraph (5)(c) element of the offence.

Influencing a Commonwealth public official
 (7) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person does anything with the intention of dishonestly influencing a public official in the exercise of the official's duties as a public official; and
 (b) the public official is a Commonwealth public official; and
 (c) the duties are duties as a Commonwealth public official.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
 (8) In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (7), it is not necessary to prove that the defendant knew:
 (a) that the official was a Commonwealth public official; or
 (b) that the duties were duties as a Commonwealth public official.

135.2  Obtaining financial advantage
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person engages in conduct; and
 (aa) as a result of that conduct, the person obtains a financial advantage for himself or herself from another person; and
 (ab) the person knows or believes that he or she is not eligible to receive that financial advantage; and
 (b) the other person is a Commonwealth entity.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
 (1A) Absolute liability applies to the paragraph (1)(b) element of the offence.
 (2) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person engages in conduct; and
 (aa) as a result of that conduct, the person obtains a financial advantage for another person from a third person; and
 (ab) the person knows or believes that the other person is not eligible to receive that financial advantage; and
 (b) the third person is a Commonwealth entity.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
 (2A) Absolute liability applies to the paragraph (2)(b) element of the offence.
 (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a person is taken to have obtained a financial advantage for another person from a Commonwealth entity if the first‑mentioned person induces the Commonwealth entity to do something that results in the other person obtaining the financial advantage.