Co-operative Housing and Starr-Bowkett Societies Act 1998
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211 Falsification of records
211 Falsification of records
(1) An officer of a co-operative housing body must not destroy, mutilate, alter or falsify a document or security, or make or be privy to the making of any false or fraudulent entry in a document, belonging to the body with intent to defraud or deceive a person.
(2) A person who, having a duty to record information in the documents of a co-operative housing body, fails to record the information in the documents—
(a) with intent to defraud another person, or
(b) knowing that the failure will render other matter contained in the documents false or misleading in a material particular,
commits an offence.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.