26Provision of false or misleading documents

26 Provision of false or misleading documents

(1) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person produces a document, or a copy of a document, under section 22; and (b) the document or copy is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.

Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who produces a document, or a copy of a document, that, to the knowledge of the person, is false or misleading in a material particular if the document or copy is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate: (a) stating that the document or copy is, to the knowledge of the person, false or misleading in a material particular; and (b) setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document or copy is, to the knowledge of the person, false or misleading.