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Customs and Excise Act 2018

Administrative provisions - Registered user systems

330: Offence in relation to interference with registered user system

You could also call this:

"It's an offence to mess with a registered user system or its records on purpose"

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If you knowingly falsify records or information in a registered user system, you commit an offence. You also commit an offence if you knowingly damage or impair a registered user system.

If you damage or impair a computer system that holds information from a registered user system without the chief executive's permission, you commit an offence.

You can be imprisoned for up to 3 years or fined up to $25,000 if you are convicted of this offence, which is similar to a provision in the 1996 No 27 legislation.

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Part 5Administrative provisions
Registered user systems

330Offence in relation to interference with registered user system

  1. A person commits an offence if the person—

  2. knowingly falsifies any record or information stored in a registered user system; or
    1. knowingly damages or impairs a registered user system; or
      1. without the permission of the chief executive, knowingly damages or impairs any computer system on which any information obtained from a registered user system is held or stored.

        1. A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on conviction to—

        2. imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years; or
          1. a fine not exceeding $25,000.

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