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Motor Accident Insurance Act 1994
sec.87ZPOther offences about investigations
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### sec.87ZP Other offences about investigations
A person must not—
conceal, destroy, mutilate or alter a document of or about an investigated person whose affairs are being investigated under this part; or
send, cause to be sent or conspire with someone else to send out of the State a document mentioned in paragraph (a) or any property belonging to or under the control of the investigated person.
Maximum penalty—300 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
It is a defence to a prosecution of an offence against subsection (1) for the defendant to prove that the defendant did not act with intent to defeat the purposes of this part or to delay or obstruct the carrying out of an investigation under this part.
s 87ZP ins 2019 No. 36 s 25
(sec.87ZP-ssec.1) A person must not— conceal, destroy, mutilate or alter a document of or about an investigated person whose affairs are being investigated under this part; or send, cause to be sent or conspire with someone else to send out of the State a document mentioned in paragraph (a) or any property belonging to or under the control of the investigated person. Maximum penalty—300 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
(sec.87ZP-ssec.2) It is a defence to a prosecution of an offence against subsection (1) for the defendant to prove that the defendant did not act with intent to defeat the purposes of this part or to delay or obstruct the carrying out of an investigation under this part.
- (a) conceal, destroy, mutilate or alter a document of or about an investigated person whose affairs are being investigated under this part; or
- (b) send, cause to be sent or conspire with someone else to send out of the State a document mentioned in paragraph (a) or any property belonging to or under the control of the investigated person.