Criminal Code Act 1995

A person commits an offence if:

the person produces a document to another person; and

the person does so knowing that the document is false or misleading; and

the document is produced in compliance or purported compliance with a law of the Commonwealth.

Subsection (1) does not apply if the document is not false or misleading in a material particular.

A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2). See subsection 13.3(3).

Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who produces a document if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate:

stating that the document is, to the knowledge of the first‑mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and

setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first‑mentioned person, false or misleading.

A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (3). See subsection 13.3(3).