False or misleading documents

Current

(1)

A person must not give a shipping inspector a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.

(2)

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

(a)

informs the shipping inspector, 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.

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