325False or misleading entries

325 False or misleading entries

325 False or misleading entries

(1) A person must not record something in a work record that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is false or misleading.

Maximum penalty—$10000.

Editorial note.

See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

Note—

See section 632 for the matters a court may consider when deciding whether a person ought reasonably to have known something.

(2) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1), it is enough for a charge to state that the entry was ‘false or misleading’, without specifying whether it was false or whether it was misleading.

s 325: Am 2016 No 65, sec 61.