Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ROYAL COMMISSIONS ACT 1991 (NO. 1 OF 1991) - SECT 39

39. A person, knowing or having reasonable grounds for believing that a document or other thing is or may be required in evidence before a Commission, shall not wilfully—

        (a)     conceal, mutilate, destroy or alter the document or other thing;

        (b)     render the document or other thing incapable of identification; or

        (c)     in the case of a document—render it illegible or indecipherable.

Penalty: $20,000 or imprisonment for 2 years.