Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00130:section:163
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00130
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 163
Character Range: 539548–540166

163  Offence—unauthorised obtaining of protected information
 (1) If:
 (a) a person intentionally obtains information; and
 (b) the person is not authorised under the family assistance law to obtain the information; and
 (c) the person knows or ought reasonably to know that the information is protected information;
the person commits an offence punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.
 (2) Strict liability applies to the element of an offence against subsection (1) that a person not authorised to do something is not authorised under the family assistance law to do that thing.