sec.138False or misleading documents

sec.138 False or misleading documents

A person must not, for this Act, give an official a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— informs the official, 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 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—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment. (sec.138-ssec.1) A person must not, for this Act, give an official a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment. (sec.138-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— informs the official, 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.138-ssec.3) 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—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

• (a) informs the official, 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.