Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 36

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person:

  (i)   fabricates evidence; or

  (ii)   makes use of fabricated evidence; and

  (b)   the person does so with the intention of misleading a court or judicial tribunal in a judicial proceeding; and

  (c)   the judicial proceeding is a federal judicial proceeding.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 5 years.

  (2)   Absolute liability applies to the paragraph   (1)(c) element of the offence.

Note:   For absolute liability, see section   6.2 of the Criminal Code .