Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

A person must not provide information in connection with a matter under this Act (or under the native vegetation legislation) that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty—Tier 1 monetary penalty.

For the purposes of this section, a person provides information in connection with any such matter if—

the person is an applicant for a licence, approval, certificate or other authority under this Act (or under the native vegetation legislation), or for a variation of any such authority, and the information is provided by the applicant in or in connection with the application, or

the person is engaged by any such applicant and the information is provided by that person for the purposes of the application, or

the person provides information in connection with any other matter or thing under this Act (or under the native vegetation legislation) that the regulations declare to be the provision of information in connection with a matter under this Act.

Note.

The Crimes Act 1900 contains other offences relating to false and misleading information: section 192G (Intention to defraud by false or misleading statement—maximum penalty imprisonment for 5 years); sections 307A, 307B and 307C (False or misleading applications/information/documents—maximum penalty imprisonment for 2 years or $22,000, or both).