False or misleading document
42 False or misleading document
A person must not give the ombudsman or an officer of the ombudsman a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document—
tells the ombudsman or officer, to the best of the person’s ability, how the information in the document 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 the information in the document was, without specifying which, ‘false or misleading’.
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