11Prohibition on providing services for WMD program

11 Prohibition on providing services for WMD program

(1) If: (a) a person provides any services to another person; and (b) the first‑mentioned person believes or suspects, on reasonable grounds, that the services will or may assist a WMD program; and (c) the provision of the services is not authorised by a permit or is in contravention of a condition stated in a permit; and (d) the Minister has not given a written notice to the first‑mentioned person under section 12 stating that the Minister has no reason to believe or suspect that the provision of the services will or may assist a WMD program; the first‑mentioned person commits an offence punishable on conviction by imprisonment for not more than 8 years.

Note: Subsection 4B(2) of the Crimes Act 1914 allows a court to impose an appropriate fine instead of, or in addition to, a term of imprisonment. If a body corporate is convicted of the offence, subsection 4B(3) of that Act allows a court to impose a fine of an amount that is not greater than 5 times the maximum fine that could be imposed by the court on an individual convicted of the same offence.

(2) It is not an offence against subsection (1) for a person to provide services to another person if the services are provided in compliance with conditions stated in a notice given to the first‑mentioned person by the Minister under subsection 14(2).