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Mineral Titles Act 2010
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151 Misleading information and documents
(1) A person must not give misleading information to an official acting
in an official capacity.
(a) intentionally gives the information to the official; and
(b) knows the information is misleading; and
(c) knows the official is acting in an official capacity.
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(2) A person must not give a document containing misleading
information to an official acting in an official capacity.
(a) intentionally gives the document to the official; and
(b) knows the document contains misleading information; and
(c) knows the official is acting in an official capacity.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person, when giving the
document:
(a) draws the misleading aspect of the document to the official's
attention; and
(b) to the extent to which the person can reasonably do so – gives
the official the information necessary to correct the document.
misleading information means information that is misleading in a
material particular or because of the omission of a material
particular.