Biodiscovery Act 2004
sec.57False or misleading documents given by person seeking benefit sharing agreement
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sec.57 False or misleading documents given by person seeking benefit sharing agreement
A person, in seeking a benefit sharing agreement, must not give the Minister a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document— informs the Minister, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and gives the correct information to the Minister if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information. s 57 amd 2020 No. 27 s 3 sch 1 (sec.57-ssec.1) A person, in seeking a benefit sharing agreement, must not give the Minister a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units. (sec.57-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document— informs the Minister, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and gives the correct information to the Minister if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.
- (a) informs the Minister, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and
- (b) gives the correct information to the Minister if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.