Legal Profession Act 2004 No 112
Current version for 8 July 2011 to date (accessed 23 May 2013 at 18:14)

675   Destruction of evidence

A person must not, with intent to prevent, hinder or otherwise interfere with the carrying out of a trust account investigation, trust account examination, complaint investigation or compliance audit, and whether before or after the appointment of an investigator, destroy, conceal, remove from one place to another or deliver into the possession, or place under the control, of another person any information or document that may provide evidence of a contravention of this Act, the regulations or the legal profession rules.

Maximum penalty on indictment: imprisonment for 5 years.

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