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Legal Profession Act 2007
sec.656False or misleading documents
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### sec.656 False or misleading documents
A person must not give to a disciplinary body a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document—
informs the disciplinary body, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and
gives the correct information to the disciplinary body if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.
(sec.656-ssec.1) A person must not give to a disciplinary body a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.
(sec.656-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document— informs the disciplinary body, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and gives the correct information to the disciplinary body if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.
- (a) informs the disciplinary body, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and
- (b) gives the correct information to the disciplinary body if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.