Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00632:section:54ab
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00632
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 54AB
Character Range: 1085738–1086318

54AB  Criminal offence for damaging etc. documents
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person damages, destroys, alters, conceals or falsifies a document; and
 (b) the document is created, retained or issued for the purposes of this Act, or for purposes that include the purposes of this Act.
Penalty: 7 years imprisonment or 2,000 penalty units, or both.
Note: For the liability of an executive officer of a body corporate, see sections 54B and 54BA.
 (2) Strict liability applies to paragraph (1)(b).
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.