Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsUsing information to commit offence
(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person obtains information; and
(b) the information is restricted information; and
(c) the person uses the information to commit an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units, or both.
(2) In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1), it is not necessary to prove that the defendant knew that the offence was an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.
Disclosing information to another person
(3) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person obtains information; and
(b) the information is restricted information; and
(c) the person discloses the information to another person; and
(d) the person is not authorised or required under:
(i) this Act; or
(ii) the Australian Border Force Act 2015 ;
to make that disclosure.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units, or both.
(4) In this section:
"restricted information" means information:
(a) held in a computer owned, leased or operated by the Commonwealth for use for the purposes of the Customs Acts; and
(b) to which access is restricted by an access control system associated with a function of the computer.