Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsA person (the first person ) commits an offence if:
(a) the first person solicits the disclosure of information from an Agency officer or another person, whether or not any protected Agency information is actually disclosed; and
(b) the disclosure would be in contravention of this Part; and
(c) the information is protected Agency information.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years or 120 penalty units, or both.
Note: If a body corporate is convicted of an offence against this section, subsection 4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914 allows a court to impose a fine of up to 5 times the pecuniary penalty stated above.