False or misleading information
16 False or misleading information
A person must not give information to a coroner or independent doctor that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.Maximum penalty—80 penalty units.
Example—
A person must not falsely state that the person is the deceased person’s spouse in an application for permission to cremate.
Subsection (1) does not apply to information given in a document, if the person when giving the document—
informs the coroner or independent doctor, to the best of the person’s ability, how the information is false or misleading; and
if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.
It is enough for a complaint against a person for an offence against subsection (1) to state that the information was ‘false or misleading’, without specifying whether it was false or whether it was misleading.
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