Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS ACT 1945 - SECT 28

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person gives information or a document to a Commonwealth entity; and

  (b)   the information or document is given in connection with the administration of a UN sanction enforcement law; and

  (c)   the information or document:

  (i)   is false or misleading; or

  (ii)   omits any matter or thing without which the information or document is misleading.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 10 years or 2,500 penalty units, or both.

  (2)   A person (the first person ) commits an offence if:

  (a)   the first person gives information or a document to another person; and

  (b)   the first person is reckless as to whether the other person or someone else will give the information or document to a Commonwealth entity in connection with the administration of a UN sanction enforcement law; and

  (c)   the information or document:

  (i)   is false or misleading; or

  (ii)   omits any matter or thing without which the information or document is misleading.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 10 years or 2,500 penalty units, or both.

  (3)   Subsection   ( 1) or (2) does not apply:

  (a)   as a result of subparagraph   ( 1)(c)(i) or (2)(c)(i)--if the information or document is not false or misleading in a material particular; or

  (b)   as a result of subparagraph   ( 1)(c)(ii) or (2)(c)(ii)--if the information or document did not omit any matter or thing without which the information or document is misleading in a material particular.

Note:   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection   ( 3) (see subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code ).

Geographical application of offences

  (4)   Section   15.1 of the Criminal Code (extended geographical jurisdiction--category A) applies to an offence against subsection   ( 1) or (2).