Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2012C00753:clause:2_39
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2012C00753
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 39
Character Range: 20858–21582

39  Destroying evidence
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person knows that a book, document or thing of any kind is, or may be, required in evidence in a judicial proceeding; and
 (b) the person:
 (i) destroys the book, document or thing; or
 (ii) renders the book, document or thing illegible, undecipherable or incapable of identification; and
 (c) the person does so with the intention of preventing the book, document or thing from being used in evidence; and
 (d) the judicial proceeding is a federal judicial proceeding.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
 (2) Absolute liability applies to the paragraph (1)(d) element of the offence.
Note: For absolute liability, see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code.