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Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943
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##### 27B. False or misleading information
(1) A person must not do anything set out in subsection (2) —
(a) in, or in connection with, a notice or other document given under this Act; or
(b) in compliance, or purported compliance, with a requirement under this Act; or
(c) for any other purpose under this Act.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $10 000.
(2) The things to which subsection (1) applies are —
(a) making a statement that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; and
(b) omitting from a statement made anything without which the statement is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular; and
(c) giving information that —
(i) the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or
(ii) omits anything without which the information, to the person’s knowledge, is misleading in a material particular.
[Section 27B inserted: No. 8 of 2016 s. 52.]