60False or misleading information

60 False or misleading information

(1)  A person must not –

(a) give to the council or a commission information, or documents, that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; or

(b) at a hearing of the council or a commission, give evidence, or produce a document, that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both.

(2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to information, documents or evidence if, at the time when the person gives or produces that information, document or evidence, the person –

(a) informs the council, or commission, that the information, document or evidence is false or misleading in a material particular; and

(b) specifies in which respect, to the person’s knowledge, it is false or misleading.