Offence to give false or misleading information
111A Offence to give false or misleading information
A person who gives false or misleading information to the Commissioner or the chief executive officer 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 to the Commissioner or the chief executive officer if the person does one 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 111A inserted: No. 44 of 2016 s. 41; amended: No. 25 of 2019 s. 87.]
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