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Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003
sec.533Offences involving fraud
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### sec.533 Offences involving fraud
A person must not in any way defraud or attempt to defraud an insurer.
Maximum penalty—500 penalty units or 5 years imprisonment.
If conduct that constitutes an offence defined in subsection (1) is recurrent so that, but for this subsection, each instance of the conduct would constitute a separate offence, 2 or more instances of the conduct are to be taken to constitute but 1 offence committed over a period specified in the complaint laid in relation to the conduct, and may be charged and be dealt with on 1 complaint.
s 533 amd 2013 No. 52 s 95
(sec.533-ssec.1) A person must not in any way defraud or attempt to defraud an insurer. Maximum penalty—500 penalty units or 5 years imprisonment.
(sec.533-ssec.2) If conduct that constitutes an offence defined in subsection (1) is recurrent so that, but for this subsection, each instance of the conduct would constitute a separate offence, 2 or more instances of the conduct are to be taken to constitute but 1 offence committed over a period specified in the complaint laid in relation to the conduct, and may be charged and be dealt with on 1 complaint.