Misleading information or document
39 Misleading information or document
A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person gives information to the Commissioner under this Act; and
the person knows the information is misleading.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person gives a document to the Commissioner under this Act; and
the person knows the document contains misleading information.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person, when giving the information:
(a) draws the misleading aspect of the document to the Commissioner's attention; and
(b) to the extent to which the person can reasonably do so – gives the Commissioner the information necessary to remedy the misleading aspect of the document.
In this section:
misleading information means information that is misleading in a material particular or because of the omission of a material particular.
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