702False or misleading documents

702 False or misleading documents

702 False or misleading documents

(1) A person commits an offence if the person gives an official a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading.

Maximum penalty—$10000.

Editorial note.

See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person, when giving the document—

(a) tells the official how information contained in the document is false or misleading; and

(b) if the person has the correct information—gives the correct information.

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

(a) gives an official a document containing information that is false or misleading; and

(b) is reckless as to whether information contained in the document is false or misleading.

Maximum penalty—$8000.

Editorial note.

See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

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

(5) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) or (3), it is enough for a charge to state that the information was ‘false or misleading’, without specifying whether it was false or whether it was misleading.

(6) 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 702: Am 2016 No 65, sec 107.