New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SPECIAL COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY ACT 1983 - SECT 30

30 Delaying and obstructing Special Commission

(1) Any person who, with intent to delay or obstruct the carrying out by a Special Commission of any inquiry, destroys or alters any book, document or record relating to the subject-matter of the inquiry, or sends or attempts to send, or conspires with any other person to send out of New South Wales any such book, document or record, or any property of any description belonging to or in the disposition of or under the control of any person or company whose affairs are the subject-matter of the inquiry, is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding 5 years.

(2) If in any prosecution for an offence against this section it is proved that the defendant has destroyed or altered any book, document or record, or has sent or attempted to send, or conspired to send, out of New South Wales any such book, document or record, or any other thing, the onus of proving that in so doing the defendant had not acted in contravention of this section shall be upon the defendant.