139
In forceFalse or misleading documents
Chapter 6General
Part 3False or misleading statements or documents
139 False or misleading documents
(1)
A person must not give the public guardian a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document—
(a)
tells the public guardian, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and
(b)
if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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