False or misleading information
98B False or misleading information
A person who gives information to the Electoral Commission of Queensland under the Electoral Act 1992 or Referendums Act 1997, including information in a document, that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular is guilty of a crime.Maximum penalty—7 years imprisonment.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person giving a document if, when giving the document to someone, the person—
informs the other person, 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 other person the correct information.
sch 1 pt 3 ch 14 ch div 2 s 98B ins 2002 No. 8 s 51
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