False or misleading documents

Current

(1)

A person must not give an authorised person a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

(2)

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

(a)

tells the authorised person, 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.

(3)

In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1), it is enough to state that the document was, without specifying which, ‘false or misleading’.

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