192False or misleading information or document

192 False or misleading information or document

A person must not: (a) in connection with an application made to the Regulator under this Act or the regulations; or (b) in compliance or purported compliance with this Act or the regulations; do either of the following: (c) give information (whether orally or in writing) that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; (d) produce a document that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular without: (i) indicating to the person to whom the document is produced that it is false or misleading, and the respect in which it is false or misleading; and (ii) providing correct information to that person, if the person producing the document is in possession of, or can reasonably acquire, the correct information.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 1 year or 60 penalty units.

Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.