22Consequences for providing false or misleading information or documents

22 Consequences for providing false or misleading information or documents

(1) A person commits an offence if: (a) the person gives information or produces a document to a person or body; and (b) the person does so in response to a condition imposed on a return permit given to the person; and (c) the person does so knowing that the information or document is false or misleading.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the information or document is not false or misleading in a material particular.

Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in this subsection (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).