AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 40YA Victimisation

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 40YA

  (1)   A person commits an offence if the person causes, or threatens to cause, detriment to another person (the victim ) on the ground that the victim, or any other person:

  (a)   has given, or may give, information under this Part; or

  (b)   has produced, or may produce, a document, record or thing to a person under this Part.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 6 months.

  (2)   For the purposes of subsection   (1), a threat may be:

  (a)   express or implied; or

  (b)   conditional or unconditional.

  (3)   In a prosecution for an offence against subsection   (1), it is not necessary to prove that the person threatened actually feared that the threat would be carried out.