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MOTOR ACCIDENT INSURANCE ACT 1994 - SECT 87

87 Offences relating to investigations

(1) A person who--

(a) conceals, destroys, mutilates or alters a document of or about an insurer or other body corporate whose affairs are being investigated under this division; or
(b) sends, causes to be sent or conspires with someone else to send, out of the State a document mentioned in paragraph (a) or any property belonging to or under the control of the insurer or body corporate;

commits an offence.

Maximum penalty--300 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.

(2) It is a defence to a charge of an offence against subsection (1) to prove that the defendant did not act with intent to defeat the purposes of this division or to delay or obstruct the carrying out of an investigation under this division.



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