60Claims for payments—false or misleading statements

60 Claims for payments—false or misleading statements

False statements not to be made (1) A person must not make a false statement to a person who is exercising powers or performing functions under, or in connection with, subsection 59(2).

Note: Subsection 59(2) deals with claims for payments.

Offence (2) A person who intentionally or recklessly contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months. Definition (3) In this section:

false statement means a statement (whether made orally, in a document or in any other way) that:

(a) is false or misleading in a material particular; or
(b) omits any matter or thing without which the statement is misleading in a material particular.