Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

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 is guilty of 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.