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Criminal Code Act 1983
198Concealment of matters affecting liberty
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198 Concealment of matters affecting liberty
(a) being required by law to keep any record touching any matter
relating to any person in confinement, refuses or neglects to
keep such record, or makes in such record an entry that, in
any material particular, is to his knowledge false; or
(b) being required by law to give any information to any person
touching any person in confinement, or to show to any person
any person in confinement, or any place in which a person is
confined:
(i) refuses or neglects to give such information, or to show
such person or place, to any person to whom he is so
required to give the information or show the person or
place; or
(ii) gives to any person to whom he is so required to give it
information touching any such matter that, in any
material particular, is to his knowledge false,