Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132:section:36a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 36A
Character Range: 1295486–1296274

36A  Intimidation of witnesses etc.
 (1) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
 (a) the first person:
 (i) threatens, intimidates or restrains another person; or
 (ii) uses violence to, or inflicts an injury on, another person; or
 (iii) causes or procures violence, damage, loss or disadvantage to another person; or
 (iv) causes or procures the punishment of another person; and
 (b) the first person does so on account of the other person having appeared, or being about to appear, as a witness in a judicial proceeding; and
 (c) the judicial proceeding is a federal judicial proceeding.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 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.