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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 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 .


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