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CurrentGiving false or misleading information
Part 4Miscellaneous
Division 2Offences
43 Giving false or misleading information
(1)
A person must not, in relation to the administration of this Act, give the Minister information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—1,665 penalty units.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving information in a document—
(a)
tells the Minister, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document 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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