sec.192Offence to give false or misleading information

### sec.192 Offence to give false or misleading information A person must not give information in complying or purportedly complying with this Act that the person knows— to be false or misleading in a material particular; or omits any matter or thing without which the information is misleading. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units. A person must not produce a document in complying or purportedly complying with this Act that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular without— indicating how it is false or misleading and, if practicable, providing correct information; or accompanying the document with a written statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate— stating that the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units. Subsection (2) places an evidential burden on the defendant to show— that the defendant had indicated the extent to which the document was false or misleading; or that the accompanying document sufficiently explained the extent to which the document was false or misleading. s 192 sub 2011 No. 18 s 386 (sec.192-ssec.1) A person must not give information in complying or purportedly complying with this Act that the person knows— to be false or misleading in a material particular; or omits any matter or thing without which the information is misleading. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units. (sec.192-ssec.2) A person must not produce a document in complying or purportedly complying with this Act that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular without— indicating how it is false or misleading and, if practicable, providing correct information; or accompanying the document with a written statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate— stating that the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units. (sec.192-ssec.3) Subsection (2) places an evidential burden on the defendant to show— that the defendant had indicated the extent to which the document was false or misleading; or that the accompanying document sufficiently explained the extent to which the document was false or misleading. - (a) to be false or misleading in a material particular; or - (b) omits any matter or thing without which the information is misleading. - (a) indicating how it is false or misleading and, if practicable, providing correct information; or - (b) accompanying the document with a written statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate— (i) stating that the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and (ii) setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading. - (i) stating that the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and - (ii) setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading. - (i) stating that the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and - (ii) setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading. - (a) that the defendant had indicated the extent to which the document was false or misleading; or - (b) that the accompanying document sufficiently explained the extent to which the document was false or misleading.