Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts Australian Capital Territory Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) Any person who, by false representation or imposition, obtains possession of any property of a society, or who, having property of a society in his or her possession, withholds or misapplies it or wilfully applies any part of it to purposes other than those specified or authorised in the rules of the society or in this Act, commits an offence.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
(2) A person found guilty of an offence against subsection (1) shall, if so ordered by the court by which the person was convicted, deliver up all property and repay all money in relation to which the offence was committed and, in default of delivery and repayment as ordered, shall be liable to imprisonment for 3 months.
(3) Nothing in this section shall prevent any person from being proceeded against by indictment if he or she has not previously been convicted of the same offence against this Act.