Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROPERTY FORFEITURE ACT - SECT 31

(1) A person must not, except as permitted under section 32, disclose to another person -

(a) the fact that a financial institution, or an officer of a financial institution, intends to give or has given information to the DPP or a member of the Police Force under section 13;

(b) the nature of any information given under section 13;

(c) the fact that a notice has been or is to be issued, or a response to a notice has been or is to be made, under section 14;

(d) the content of a notice or response made under section 14;

(e) the fact that he or she has been subject to a production order or an examination order in relation to another person's wealth, liabilities, expenditure or income;

(f) the fact that another person is or has been subject to, or the subject of, a production order, an examination order, a monitoring order or a suspension order; or

(g) the contents of any examination order, production order, monitoring order or suspension order.

Penalty: If the offender is a natural person - 1 000 penalty units or imprisonment for 5 years.

If the offender is a body corporate - 5 000 penalty units.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a person discloses information in contravention of that subsection if the person -

(a) discloses information to another person from which the other person could reasonably be expected to infer that a notice under section 14 has been or is to be issued or a response to such a notice has been or is to be made;

(b) discloses information to another person from which that person could reasonably be expected to infer anything about the nature or contents of a notice or response under section 14;

(c) makes or keeps a record of any information about a notice or response under section 14, other than a copy for the person's own records of the notice or the information provided in response to the notice;

(d) discloses information to another person about the existence or operation of an examination order, a production order, a monitoring order or a suspension order;

(e) discloses information to another person from which that person could reasonably be expected to infer anything about the existence or operation of an examination order, a production order, a monitoring order or a suspension order; or

(f) makes or keeps a record of any information about the existence or operation of an examination order, a production order, a monitoring order or a suspension order, other than a copy for the person's own records of -

(i) an order directed to the person; or

(ii) the information provided by the person in response to the order.