SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 205 Offence--soliciting disclosure of protected information

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 205

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person (the first person ) solicits the disclosure of protected information from an officer or another person; and

  (b)   the disclosure would be in contravention of this Division; and

  (c)   the first person knows or ought reasonably to know that the information is protected information;

the first person commits an offence, whether or not any protected information is actually disclosed.

  (2)   An offence against subsection   (1) is punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.

  (3)   Strict liability applies to the element of an offence against subsection   (1) that a contravention is a contravention of this Division.