164False or misleading information

164 False or misleading information

(1)  This section does not apply in relation to a Council election expenditure return.

(2)  A person must not provide information to the Commission that the person knows, or ought to know, is false or misleading in a material particular –

(a) in or in connection with any application, claim, request, notice, donation declaration or other disclosure under this Act; or

(b) in a donation declaration; or

(c) in an Assembly election campaign return; or

(d) in purported compliance with any requirement imposed by or under this Act.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 200 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both.

(3)  A person must not, in a document required to be lodged under, or for the purposes of, this Act, make, or cause or permit the making of, a statement that is false or misleading in a material particular, without having taken reasonable steps to ensure that the statement was not false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 200 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both.

(4)  A person must not, in a document required to be lodged under, or for the purposes of, this Act, omit, or cause or permit the omission of, any matter or thing without which the document is false or misleading in a material particular, without having taken reasonable steps to ensure that the document did not omit any matter or thing without which the document would be false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 200 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both.