WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 533
Offences involving fraud
533 Offences involving fraud
(1) A person must not in any way defraud or
attempt to defraud an insurer.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—500 penalty
units or 5 years imprisonment.
(2) If conduct that constitutes an offence
defined in subsection (1) is recurrent so that, but for this subsection, each
instance of the conduct would constitute a separate offence, 2 or more
instances of the conduct are to be taken to constitute but 1 offence committed
over a period specified in the complaint laid in relation to the conduct, and
may be charged and be dealt with on 1 complaint.
