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Public Health Act 2005
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### sec.364 False or misleading documents
A person must not give an emergency officer a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document—
tells the emergency officer, 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.
(sec.364-ssec.1) A person must not give an emergency officer a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(sec.364-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the emergency officer, 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.
- (a) tells the emergency officer, 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.