Disability Service Safeguards Act 2018
270False or misleading information or documents
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270 False or misleading information or documents
(1) A person must not provide information to an authorised officer or investigator that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), a person must not give an authorised officer or investigator a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
(3) A person may give an authorised officer or investigator a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular if the person, when giving the document—
(a) informs the authorised officer or investigator, as the case requires, to the best of the person's ability, how it is false or misleading; and
(b) gives the correct information to the authorised officer or investigator, as the case requires, if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.