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INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 92 Preventing witness from attending

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 92

Preventing witness from attending

92 Preventing witness from attending

(1) A person who wilfully prevents or wilfully endeavours to prevent any person who has been summoned to attend as a witness before the Commission from attending as a witness or from producing anything in evidence pursuant to a summons to attend is guilty of an indictable offence.
: Maximum penalty--200 penalty units or imprisonment for 5 years, or both.
(2) A person who wilfully prevents or wilfully endeavours to prevent any person from complying with a requirement under section 21 or 22 is guilty of an indictable offence.
: Maximum penalty--200 penalty units or imprisonment for 5 years, or both.
(3) A reference in subsection (1) to a person who has been summoned to attend as a witness before the Commission includes a reference to a person who is in detention under a warrant under section 36 (6) or who, having been released under that subsection on condition that the person appear and report himself or herself before the Commission, is still subject to that condition.