Misleading information
52 Misleading information
A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person gives a notice under this Act or makes a request to the Minister under section 7; and
(b) the person knows the notice or request contains misleading information.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person, when giving the notice or request:
(a) draws the misleading aspect of the notice or request to the attention of the person to whom it is given; and
(b) to the extent to which the person can reasonably do so – also gives the information necessary to remedy the misleading aspect of the notice or request.
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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