Giving misleading information or document to authorised officer or police officer
36B Giving misleading information or document to authorised officer or police officer
A person commits an offence if:
the person gives information to another person; and
(b) the other person is an authorised officer or a police officer; and
the person knows the information is misleading; and
(d) the person knows the other person is exercising powers or performing functions under, or otherwise related to the administration of, this Act as an authorised officer or a police officer.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
A person commits an offence if:
the person gives a document to another person; and
(b) the other person is an authorised officer or a police officer; and
(c) the person knows the document contains misleading information; and
(d) the person knows the other person is exercising powers or performing functions under, or otherwise related to the administration of, this Act as an authorised officer or a police officer.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
Strict liability applies to subsections (1)(b) and (2)(b).
(4) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person, when giving the document:
(a) draws the misleading aspect of the document to the attention of an authorised officer or a police officer; and
(b) to the extent to which the person can reasonably do so – gives an authorised officer or a police officer the information necessary to correct 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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