Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 58AF

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person gives information to the Court, the Sheriff or another officer of the Court; and

  (b)   the information:

  (i)   is false or misleading; or

  (ii)   omits any matter or thing without which the information is misleading; and

  (c)   the person does so with the intent of avoiding service as a juror.

Penalty:   60 penalty units.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply as a result of subparagraph   (1)(b)(i) if the information is not false or misleading in a material particular.

Note:   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection   (2)--see subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code .

  (3)   Subsection   (1) does not apply as a result of subparagraph   (1)(b)(ii) if the information did not omit any matter or thing without which the information is misleading in a material particular.

Note:   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection   (3)--see subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code .