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FINANCIAL TRANSACTION REPORTS ACT 1988 - SECT 32

Injunction

  (1)   Where, on the application of the AUSTRAC CEO, a prescribed court is satisfied that a person has engaged, or is proposing to engage, in conduct that constitutes or would constitute:

  (a)   a contravention of Part   II or III or this Part;

  (b)   attempting to contravene such a provision;

  (c)   aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring a person to contravene such a provision;

  (d)   inducing, or attempting to induce, whether by threats, promises or otherwise, a person to contravene such a provision;

  (e)   being in any way, directly or indirectly, knowingly concerned in, or party to, the contravention by a person of such a provision; or

  (f)   conspiring with others to contravene such a provision;

the court may grant an injunction in such terms as the court determines to be appropriate.

  (2)   Where, in the opinion of a prescribed court, it is desirable to do so, the court may grant an interim injunction pending determination of an application under subsection   (1).

  (3)   The court may rescind or vary an injunction granted under subsection   (1) or (2).

  (4)   The power of a prescribed court to grant an injunction restraining a person from engaging in conduct may be exercised:

  (a)   whether or not it appears to the court that the person intends to engage again, or to continue to engage, in conduct of that kind; and

  (b)   whether or not the person has previously engaged in conduct of that kind.

  (5)   The power of a prescribed court to grant an injunction requiring a person to do an act or thing may be exercised:

  (a)   whether or not it appears to the court that the person intends to refuse or fail again, or to continue to refuse or fail, to do that act or thing; and

  (b)   whether or not the person has previously refused or failed to do that act or thing.

  (6)   In this section:

"prescribed court" means the High Court of Australia or the Federal Court of Australia.



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