sec.36False or misleading documents

### sec.36 False or misleading documents A person must not give, under this division, to a clerk of the court a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—8 penalty units. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the clerk, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information. In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is enough to state that the document was, without specifying which, false or misleading. s 36 prev s 36 ins 1999 No. 53 s 6 om 2004 No. 37 s 86 sch 1 pres s 36 ins 2002 No. 46 s 11 sub 2008 No. 30 s 10 amd 2008 No. 66 s 4 sch pt 1 (sec.36-ssec.1) A person must not give, under this division, to a clerk of the court a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—8 penalty units. (sec.36-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the clerk, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information. (sec.36-ssec.3) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is enough to state that the document was, without specifying which, false or misleading. - (a) tells the clerk, 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.