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Professional Engineers Act 2002
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### sec.66 False or misleading documents
A person must not, in relation to an investigation under this part, give the board or an investigator a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document—
informs the board or investigator, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and
if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information to the board or investigator.
(sec.66-ssec.1) A person must not, in relation to an investigation under this part, give the board or an investigator a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(sec.66-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document— informs the board or investigator, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information to the board or investigator.
- (a) informs the board or investigator, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and
- (b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information to the board or investigator.