Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCING ACT 2006 - SECT 172H

  (1)   The AUSTRAC CEO may give a copy of the whole or a part of a written record of an examination made under subsection   172G(1) to a person's lawyer if the lawyer satisfies the AUSTRAC CEO that the person is carrying on, or is contemplating in good faith, a proceeding in respect of a matter to which the examination related.

  (2)   A person commits an offence of strict liability if:

  (a)   the AUSTRAC CEO gives a copy of the whole or a part of a written record of an examination to a person under subsection   (1); and

  (b)   the person, or any other person who has possession, custody or control of the copy or a copy of it:

  (i)   uses the copy or a copy of it; or

  (ii)   publishes, or communicates to another person, the copy, a copy of it, or any part of the copy's contents;

    except in connection with preparing, beginning or carrying on, or in the course of, a proceeding.

Penalty:   30 penalty units.

  (3)   The AUSTRAC CEO may, subject to such conditions (if any) as it imposes, give to a person a copy of the whole or a part of a written record of the examination made under subsection   172G(1).