67False or misleading evidence or documents at a hearing

67  False or misleading evidence or documents at a hearing

 (a) the person gives evidence, or produces a document, at a hearing; and

 (b) the person does so knowing that the evidence or document:

 (i) is false or misleading; or

 (ii) omits any matter or thing without which the evidence or document is misleading.

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 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the evidence 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.

 (3) Subsection (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 person or officer, 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 person or officer, false or misleading.

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