Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 215

  (1)   A person must not obtain:

  (a)   payment of a social security payment under the social security law; or

  (b)   payment of an instalment of a social security payment under the social security law;

knowing that the payment is:

  (c)   not payable at all; or

  (d)   only payable in part.

  (2)   For the purposes of an offence against section   217 that relates to subsection   (1) of this section, strict liability applies to the following elements of the offence:

  (a)   the element that a payment is a social security payment under the social security law;

  (b)   the element that an instalment is an instalment of a social security payment under the social security law.