False or misleading documents
307C False or misleading documents
A person is guilty of 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 State.
Maximum penalty—Imprisonment for 2 years, or a fine of 200 penalty units, or both.
Subsection (1) does not apply if the document is not false or misleading in a material particular.
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.
The burden of establishing a matter referred to in subsection (2) or (3) lies on the accused person.
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