Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 2002 - SECT 712

    (1)     A person commits an offence if the person causes or threatens to cause a detriment to a person involved in a legal proceeding—

        (a)     because of something done by the involved person in the proceeding; and

        (b)     in the belief that the involved person was an involved person who had done that thing.

Maximum penalty: 500 penalty units, imprisonment for 5 years or both.

    (2)     In this section:

"intermediary" includes a person who attends in the proceeding as an intermediary but is not called as an intermediary.

"interpreter" includes a person who attends in the proceeding as an interpreter but is not called as an interpreter.

"involved person", in relation to a legal proceeding, means—

        (a)     a judge, magistrate or member of a tribunal or other entity the proceeding is before; or

        (b)     a registrar, deputy registrar or other official of the court, tribunal or other entity the proceeding is before; or

        (c)     a witness, interpreter, intermediary, juror or lawyer involved in the proceeding; or

        (d)     for a criminal proceeding—a complainant, informant or party to the proceeding.

"witness" includes a person who attends in the proceeding as a witness but is not called as a witness.