Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (CURRENCY) ACT 1981 - SECT 14

             (1)  A person shall not give, or offer to give, information with respect to the manner in which or the means by which counterfeit money or counterfeit prescribed securities may be made, bought, sold, procured or disposed of.

Penalty:

                     (a)  in the case of a person, not being a body corporate--$10,000 or imprisonment for 5 years, or both; or

                     (b)  in the case of a person, being a body corporate--$20,000.

             (2)  Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.

Note:          A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code ).