21False or misleading documents

21 False or misleading documents

21 False or misleading documents

(1) A person must not give an investigator a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty—

(a) in the case of an individual—$5,000; or

(b) in the case of a body corporate—$10,000.

(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document—

(a) informs the investigator, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and

(b) gives the correct information to the investigator if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.