Offence of giving false or misleading information
33A Offence of giving false or misleading information
A person who gives false or misleading information to the Commissioner when required to give information to the Commissioner under this Act commits an offence.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $20 000.
For the purposes of subsection (1), a person gives false or misleading information if the person does 1 or more of the following —
states anything that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular;
omits anything from a statement without which the statement is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular;
gives or produces any information that —
the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or
omits anything without which the information is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular.
[Section 33A inserted: No. 25 of 2019 s. 36.]
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