Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 2002 - SECT 707

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person—

              (i)     provides a benefit to someone else; or

              (ii)     causes a benefit to be provided to someone else; or

              (iii)     offers to provide, or promises to provide, a benefit to someone else; or

              (iv)     causes an offer of the provision of a benefit, or a promise of the provision of a benefit, to be made to someone else; and

        (b)     the person does so with the intention that the other person or a third person will—

              (i)     not attend as a witness, interpreter, intermediary or juror in a legal proceeding; or

              (ii)     give false or misleading evidence in a legal proceeding; or

              (iii)     withhold true evidence in a legal proceeding; or

              (iv)     give a false or misleading interpretation as an interpreter in a legal proceeding; or

              (v)     assist a witness to communicate evidence as an intermediary in a legal proceeding in a way that makes the evidence false or misleading; or

              (vi)     improperly make a decision as a juror in a legal proceeding; or

              (vii)     improperly influence a juror in a legal proceeding.

Maximum penalty: 700 penalty units, imprisonment for 7 years or both.

    (2)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person—

              (i)     asks for a benefit for the person or someone else; or

              (ii)     obtains a benefit for the person or someone else; or

              (iii)     agrees to obtain a benefit for the person or someone else; and

        (b)     the person does so with the intention that, or with the intention of inducing, fostering or sustaining a belief that, the person or someone else will—

              (i)     not attend as a witness, interpreter, intermediary or juror in a legal proceeding; or

              (ii)     give false or misleading evidence in a legal proceeding; or

              (iii)     withhold true evidence in a legal proceeding; or

              (iv)     give a false or misleading interpretation as an interpreter in a legal proceeding; or

              (v)     assist a witness to communicate evidence as an intermediary in a legal proceeding in a way that makes the evidence false or misleading; or

              (vi)     improperly make a decision as a juror in a legal proceeding; or

              (vii)     improperly influence a juror in a legal proceeding.

Maximum penalty: 700 penalty units, imprisonment for 7 years or both.

    (3)     For this section, a person ( A ) is taken to obtain a benefit for someone else ( B ) if A induces a third person to do something that results in B obtaining the benefit.