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FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS DUTY ACT 1983 - SECT 36A

36A—Offence where certain payments are made to exempt accounts

        (1)         If a person in whose name an exempt account is kept by a financial institution pays an amount, or causes, permits or authorises an amount to be paid, to the credit of the account in contravention of this Part, the person is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

        (2)         It is a defence to a charge of an offence against subsection (1) to prove that the defendant has lodged a return and paid duty to the Commissioner in accordance with section 37 in relation to the payment to which the charge relates.



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