sec.298False or misleading documents

sec.298 False or misleading documents

A person must not give the commissioner or an adjudicator (each the receiver ) a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading. Maximum penalty—60 penalty units. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document— informs the receiver, 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 receiver. It is enough for a complaint under the Justices Act 1886 against a person for an offence against subsection (1) to state that the document was false or misleading to the person’s knowledge. s 298 amd 2003 No. 6 s 103 (sec.298-ssec.1) A person must not give the commissioner or an adjudicator (each the receiver ) a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading. Maximum penalty—60 penalty units. (sec.298-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document— informs the receiver, 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 receiver. (sec.298-ssec.3) It is enough for a complaint under the Justices Act 1886 against a person for an offence against subsection (1) to state that the document was false or misleading to the person’s knowledge.

• (a) informs the receiver, 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 receiver.