701False or misleading statements

701 False or misleading statements

701 False or misleading statements

(1) A person commits an offence if the person makes a statement to an official that the person knows is false or misleading.

Maximum penalty—$10000.

Editorial note.

See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(2) A person commits an offence if the person—

(a) makes a statement to an official that is false or misleading; and

(b) is reckless as to whether the statement is false or misleading.

Maximum penalty—$8000.

Editorial note.

See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply even if the statement was not given in response to, or in purported compliance with, a direction or requirement under this Law.

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

(5) In this section—

official includes—

(a) TCA exercising a function under Chapter 7; and

(b) a person exercising a function under this Law under the direction or authority of an official.

s 701: Am 2016 No 65, sec 106.