31Producing false or misleading documents in relation to Australian travel documents

#### 31 Producing false or misleading documents in relation to Australian travel documents (1) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person produces a document to another person; and (b) the document is false or misleading; and (c) the document is produced in, or in connection with: (i) an application for an Australian travel document; or (ii) an Australian travel document. Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years or 1,000 penalty units, or both. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the document is not false or misleading in a material particular. > Note: The defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2). See subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code. (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who produces a document if the document 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 is, to the knowledge of the first‑mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and (b) setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first‑mentioned person, false or misleading. > Note: The defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (3). See subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.