Criminal Code Act 1995
Section 3
CHAPTER 5 - THE SECURITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH Part 5.2 - Espionage and related offences
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Hide history noteA person commits an offence if:
(a) the person deals with information or an article; and
(aa) the person deals with the information or article for the primary purpose of communicating the information or article, or making it available, to a foreign principal or a person acting on behalf of a foreign principal; and
(b) the person ' s conduct results or will result in the information or article being communicated or made available to a foreign principal or a person acting on behalf of a foreign principal; and
(c) the information or article has a security classification.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 20 years.
(2)
For the purposes of paragraphs (1)(aa) and (b):
(a) the person does not need to have in mind a particular foreign principal; and
(b) the person may have in mind more than one foreign principal.
(3)
Strict liability applies to paragraph (1)(aa).
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