Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered Acts(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person processes a raw log into something other than a raw log; and
(b) the person is a constitutional corporation, or the person processes the raw log:
(i) in the course of, or for the purposes of, trade and commerce with other countries, or among the States or between a State and a Territory; or
(ii) in a Territory; or
(iii) on behalf of a constitutional corporation; or
(iv) for the purposes of supplying timber products to a constitutional corporation; or
(v) on behalf of the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority; or
(vi) for the purposes of supplying timber products to the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority; and
(c) the raw log is illegally logged; and
(d) the person is not included in a class of persons prescribed as exempt by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; and
(e) the process is not prescribed as exempt by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; and
(f) the raw log is not of a kind prescribed as exempt by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.
Penalty: 5 years imprisonment or 500 penalty units, or both.
Exception--imported raw logs
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the raw log was imported into Australia.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code ).