First Home Owner Grant and Home Buyer Schemes Act 2000
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47 False and misleading information
(1) A person must not, in or in connection with an application for a first home owner grant—
(a) give information that is false or misleading; or
(b) make a statement that is false or misleading; or
(c) produce a document that is false or misleading.
Penalty: Level 8 imprisonment (1 year maximum) or a level 8 fine (120 penalty units maximum) or both.
(2) A person is not guilty of an offence against subsection (1) if the court hearing the charge is satisfied that the person did not know that the information, statement or document was false or misleading.
(3) A person must not, in or in connection with an application for a first home owner grant—
(a) omit information about any matter or thing, without which the application is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular; or
(b) omit from a statement any matter or thing, without which the statement is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular; or
(c) fail to produce a document, without which the application is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: Level 8 imprisonment (1 year maximum) or a level 8 fine (120 penalty units maximum) or both.
Pt 4 Div. 2 (Heading) inserted by No. 40/2016 s. 15(2).
Division 2—Recovery