62Person must not make false or misleading representation

62 Person must not make false or misleading representation

62 Person must not make false or misleading representation

(1) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, make a representation that is false or misleading in a material particular—

(a) in an application or notice under this Act, or

(b) in response to a request for information that an ART provider is required to obtain, or to take steps to obtain, under Part 2.

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units in the case of a corporation or 100 penalty units in any other case.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a person who forges a signature in any application or notice under this Act is taken to have made a representation that is false or misleading in a material particular.

(3) A reference in this section to information includes a reference to the confirmation of a gamete provider’s consent within the meaning of Division 3 of Part 2.

s 62: Subst 2018 No 73, Sch 1 [40].