Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1991 (NO. 103 OF 1991) - SECT 66

66. (1) Where a person is required by a production order to produce a document to a police officer or make a document available to a police officer for inspection, the person is guilty of an offence against this subsection if the person—

        (a)     contravenes the order without reasonable excuse; or

        (b)     in purported compliance with the order produces or makes available a document known to the person to be false or misleading in a material particular without—

              (i)     indicating to the police officer to whom the document is produced or made available that the document is false or misleading and the respect in which the document is false or misleading; and

              (ii)     providing correct information to the police officer if the person is in possession of, or can reasonably acquire, the correct information.

(2) An offence against subsection (1) is punishable, upon conviction, by—

        (a)     if the offender is a natural person—a fine not exceeding $20,000 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 2 years, or both; or

        (b)     if the offender is a body corporate—a fine not exceeding $100,000.

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