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Dairy Industry Adjustment Act 2000
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136 False or misleading documents
(a) the person produces a document to another person; and
(b) the person does so knowing that the document is false or misleading; and
(c) the document is produced in compliance or purported compliance with the DSAP scheme or this Schedule.
(2) Subclause (1) does not apply if the document is not false or misleading in a material particular.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subclause (2). See subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.
(3) Subclause (1) does not apply to a person who produces a document if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate:
(a) stating that the document is, to the knowledge of the first‑mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and
(b) setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first‑mentioned person, false or misleading.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subclause (3). See subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.