Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

STUDENT ASSISTANCE ACT 1973 - SECT 358

    If:

  (a)   a person solicits the disclosure of protected information from an officer; and

  (b)   makes representations that the person knows or ought reasonably to know are untrue with the intention of soliciting the disclosure of the information from the officer;

then, whether or not any protected information is actually disclosed, the person commits an offence punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a period of not more than 2 years.

Note 1:   Subsection   4B(2) of the Crimes Act 1914 allows a court that convicts an individual of an offence to impose a fine instead of, or in addition to, a term of imprisonment. The maximum fine that a court can impose on the individual is worked out by multiplying the maximum term of imprisonment (in months) by 5, and then multiplying the resulting number by the amount of a penalty unit. The amount of a penalty unit is stated in section   4AA of that Act.

Note 2:   For protected information see subsection   3(1).

Note 3:   For officer see subsection   3(1).