Offence: giving false or misleading document
268BJ Offence: giving false or misleading document
A person who gives or shows a document that is false or misleading in a material particular, in the course of complying or purporting to comply with a production or attendance notice, commits an offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
However, the person does not commit the offence if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person:
stating that the document is, to the person’s knowledge, false or misleading in the material particular concerned; and
setting out or referring to the material particular.
A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2): see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.
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