sec.203False or misleading documents

### sec.203 False or misleading documents A person must not, in relation to an investigation or audit under this part, give QBCC a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—165 penalty units. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells QBCC, 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 to QBCC. 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 203 ins 2002 No. 77 s 186 amd 2013 No. 38 s 14 sch 1 (sec.203-ssec.1) A person must not, in relation to an investigation or audit under this part, give QBCC a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—165 penalty units. (sec.203-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells QBCC, 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 to QBCC. (sec.203-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 QBCC, 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 to QBCC.