Charitable and Non-Profit Gaming Act 1999
sec.159False or misleading documents
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sec.159 False or misleading documents
A person must not give an inspector a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the inspector, 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. Also, a person must not make an entry in a document required or permitted to be made or kept under this Act knowing the entry to be false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. It is enough for a complaint against a person for an offence against subsection (1) or (3) to state that the document or entry was ‘false or misleading’ to the person’s knowledge, without specifying which. (sec.159-ssec.1) A person must not give an inspector a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. (sec.159-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the inspector, 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.159-ssec.3) Also, a person must not make an entry in a document required or permitted to be made or kept under this Act knowing the entry to be false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. (sec.159-ssec.4) It is enough for a complaint against a person for an offence against subsection (1) or (3) to state that the document or entry was ‘false or misleading’ to the person’s knowledge, without specifying which.
- (a) tells the inspector, 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.