Community Services Act 2007
sec.49False or misleading documents
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sec.49 False or misleading documents
A person must not give a chief executive or an authorised officer a document containing information that 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 a chief executive or authorised 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. s 49 amd 2014 No. 12 s 77 sch 1 (sec.49-ssec.1) A person must not give a chief executive or an authorised officer a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. (sec.49-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells a chief executive or authorised 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.
- (a) tells a chief executive or authorised 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.