False or misleading documents
70 False or misleading documents
A person must not give an authorised fire officer a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person, if the person, when giving the document—
tells the authorised fire officer, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and
if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information, gives the correct information.
In this section—
document means—
a prescribed document for a building; or
a document about the maintenance of prescribed fire safety installations for a building, including, for example, a record required under an Australian Standard mentioned in QDC, part MP6.1.
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