Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK (REGISTERED ORGANISATIONS) ACT 2009 - SECT 232

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person does an act; and

  (b)   the act results in the destruction or defacement of, or other interference with, a register of members or a copy of such a register; and

  (c)   either:

  (i)   the register of members is required to be kept by an organisation under paragraph   230(1)(a); or

  (ii)   the copy is required to be kept by an organisation under section   231.

Penalty:   20 penalty units.

  (2)   Strict liability applies to paragraph   (1)(c).

Note:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .