Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008
sec.70False or misleading documents
Start here
Get a plain-English read of sec.70
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008.
sec.70 False or misleading documents
A person must not give an authorised fire officer a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—30 penalty units. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person, if the person, when giving the document— tells the authorised fire officer, 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. In this section— document means— a prescribed document for a building; or a document about the maintenance of prescribed fire safety installations for a building, including, for example, a record required under an Australian Standard mentioned in QDC, part MP6.1. s 70 amd 2008 SL No. 413 s 9 (sec.70-ssec.1) A person must not give an authorised fire officer a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—30 penalty units. (sec.70-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person, if the person, when giving the document— tells the authorised fire officer, 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. (sec.70-ssec.3) In this section— document means— a prescribed document for a building; or a document about the maintenance of prescribed fire safety installations for a building, including, for example, a record required under an Australian Standard mentioned in QDC, part MP6.1.
- (a) tells the authorised fire officer, 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.
- (a) a prescribed document for a building; or
- (b) a document about the maintenance of prescribed fire safety installations for a building, including, for example, a record required under an Australian Standard mentioned in QDC, part MP6.1.