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Quarantine Regulations 2000
58False or misleading Incoming Passenger and Master and Crew Declaration Cards
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#### 58 False or misleading Incoming Passenger and Master and Crew Declaration Cards
(1) A person must not give, to a question about a quarantine matter on an Incoming Passenger Card or a Master and Crew Declaration Card, a false or misleading answer (even if the answer is in relation to somebody else).
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) Strict liability, within the meaning of section 6.1 of the Criminal Code, applies to an offence against subregulation (1).
(3) For subregulation (1):
> answer includes an answer given by marking a square printed on a card for that purpose.
> Incoming Passenger Card means a card in the form approved from time to time as the Incoming Passenger Card for Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands, by a Director of Quarantine.
> Master and Crew Declaration Card means a card in the form approved from time to time as the Master and Crew Declaration Card for Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands, by a Director of Quarantine.
(4) Nothing in subregulation (3) prevents the approval, as an Incoming Passenger Card or a Master and Crew Declaration Card, of a card in a form that:
(a) is also approved for another purpose under a law of the Commonwealth; or
(b) contains questions about matters arising under a law of the Commonwealth other than the Act or these Regulations.