CRIMINAL PROPERTY CONFISCATION ACT 2000 - SECT 70

CRIMINAL PROPERTY CONFISCATION ACT 2000 - SECT 70

70 .         Disclosure of certain information restricted, offence

        (1)         A person must not make a disclosure to anyone, except as permitted under section 71, about —

            (a)         the fact that a financial institution, or an officer of a financial institution, intends to give or has given information to the DPP, a police officer or an authorised CCC officer under section 53; or

            (b)         the nature of any information given under section 53; or

            (c)         the fact that a requirement or a response to it has been or is to be made under section 54; or

            (d)         the content of a requirement or response made under section 54; or

            (e)         the fact that the person or anyone else is or has been subject to a production order, an examination order, a monitoring order or a suspension order; or

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

        Penalty: $100 000, or imprisonment for 5 years, or both.

        (2)         Without limiting subsection (1), a person makes a disclosure for the purposes of the subsection if the person —

            (a)         discloses information to a person from which the person could reasonably be expected to infer that a requirement or response under section 54 has been or is to be made; or

            (b)         discloses information to a person from which the person could reasonably be expected to infer anything about the nature or contents of a requirement or response under section 54; or

            (c)         makes or keeps a record of any information about a requirement or response under section 54; or

            (d)         discloses anything about the existence or operation of an examination order, a production order, a monitoring order or a suspension order; or

            (e)         discloses information to a person from which the 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.

        [Section 70 amended: No. 10 of 2018 s. 57.]