Crimes Act 1900 No 40
Current version for 5 October 2012 to date (accessed 25 May 2013 at 06:27)
Part 7Division 3Section 322

322   Threatening or intimidating judges, witnesses, jurors etc

A person who threatens to do or cause, or who does or causes, any injury or detriment to any person:
(a)  intending to influence a person called or to be called as a witness in any judicial proceeding to give false evidence or withhold true evidence or to not attend as a witness or not produce anything in evidence pursuant to a summons or subpoena, or
(b)  intending to influence any person (whether or not a particular person) in the person’s conduct as a juror in any judicial proceeding or to not attend as a juror in any judicial proceeding, whether he or she has been sworn as a juror or not, or
(c)  intending to influence any person in the person’s conduct as a judicial officer, or
(d)  intending to influence any person in the person’s conduct as a public justice official in or in connection with any judicial proceeding,
is liable to imprisonment for 10 years.
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