Health Transparency Act 2019

A person must not, in relation to the administration of this Act, give the chief executive information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

Subsection (1) applies to information given in relation to the administration of this Act whether or not the information was given in response to a specific power under an Act.

Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the information in a document—

tells the chief executive, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and

if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.