FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 58DH Dealings with property given as security for bail

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 58DH

    A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person is:

  (i)   an accused who has signed a bail undertaking; or

  (ii)   a person who has signed a third party security undertaking made in relation to the accused's bail; and

  (b)   the person has, under that undertaking, undertaken to forfeit security if the accused does not appear before the Court in accordance with the accused's bail undertaking; and

  (c)   while the person's undertaking is in force, the person:

  (i)   disposes of, or otherwise deals with, any of that security that is not money; and

  (ii)   intends by this to prevent the forfeiture of the security, to destroy the security or to reduce its value.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 2 years.