sec.108CFalse or misleading document

### sec.108C False or misleading document A person must not give an official 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 official, 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 person must not make an entry in a document required or permitted to be made or kept under this Act knowing the entry to be false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units. This section does not apply to a document to which section 53B applies. In this section— official means— the commission; or an investigator performing a function or exercising a power under this Act. s 108C ins 2007 No. 47 s 79 amd 2013 No. 38 s 14 sch 1 ; 2017 No. 29 s 27 ; 2017 No. 43 s 300 (sec.108C-ssec.1) A person must not give an official a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units. (sec.108C-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the official, 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.108C-ssec.3) A person must not make an entry in a document required or permitted to be made or kept under this Act knowing the entry to be false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units. (sec.108C-ssec.4) This section does not apply to a document to which section 53B applies. (sec.108C-ssec.5) In this section— official means— the commission; or an investigator performing a function or exercising a power under this Act. - (a) tells the official, 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. - (a) the commission; or - (b) an investigator performing a function or exercising a power under this Act.