Misleading information and document
49 Misleading information and document
(1) A person must not knowingly give misleading information to a police officer or inspector who is exercising a power or performing a function under this Act.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment 6 months.
(2) A person must not knowingly give a document containing misleading information to a police officer or inspector who is exercising a power or performing a function under this Act.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment 6 months.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person, when giving the document:
(a) draws the misleading aspect of the document to the attention of the police officer or inspector; and
(b) to the extent to which the person can reasonably do so – gives the police officer or inspector 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 because it:
does not include relevant information; or
includes false information.
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