Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 36A

  (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 .