Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TRADE PRACTICES REVISION ACT 1986 No. 17 of 1986 - SECT 70

70. After section 162 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Intimidation, &c.   "162A. A person who-


   (a)  threatens, intimidates or coerces another person; or

   (b)  causes or procures damage, loss or disadvantage to another person, for
        or on account of that other person proposing to furnish or having
        furnished information, or proposing to produce or having produced
        documents, to the Commission or to the Tribunal or for or on account
        of the other person proposing to appear or having appeared as a
        witness before the Tribunal is guilty of an offence punishable on
        conviction-

   (c)  in the case of a person not being a body corporate-by a fine not
        exceeding $2,000 or imprisonment for 12 months; and

   (d)  in the case of a person being a body corporate-by a fine not exceeding
        $10,000.".