Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

A person must not give false or misleading information to a wildlife officer who is carrying out a function under this Act.

For the purposes of subsection (1), a person gives false or misleading information to a wildlife officer if the person does one or more of the following —

states anything to the wildlife officer that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular;

omits from a statement made to a wildlife officer anything without which the statement is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular;

gives or produces any record or other document to the wildlife officer that —

the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or

omits anything without which the record or other document is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular.