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Public and Environmental Health Act 2011
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44 Misleading information and documents
(1) A person must not give misleading information to the inquirer.
(a) intentionally gives the information to the inquirer; and
(b) knows the information is misleading; and
(c) knows the inquirer is conducting an inquiry under this Division.
(2) A person must not give the inquirer a document containing
misleading information.
(a) intentionally gives the document to the inquirer; and
(b) knows the document contains misleading information; and
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(c) knows the inquirer is conducting an inquiry under this Division.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person, when giving the
document:
(a) draws the misleading aspect of the document to the inquirer's
attention; and
(b) to the extent to which the person can reasonably do so – gives
the inquirer the information necessary to remedy the
misleading aspect of the document.