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THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 1989 - SECT 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 .


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