Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 581M

581M Other offences about investigations

(1) A person must not—

(a) conceal, destroy, mutilate or alter a document of or about an investigated entity or associated person for an investigated entity; or

(b) send, cause to be sent or conspire with someone else to send out of the State a document mentioned in paragraph (a) or any property belonging to or under the control of the investigated entity or associated person for the investigated entity.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—300 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

(2) It is a defence to a prosecution of an offence against subsection (1) for the defendant to prove that the defendant did not act with intent to defeat the purposes of this chapter or to delay or obstruct the carrying out of an investigation under this chapter.