sec.157False or misleading documents

### sec.157 False or misleading documents A person must not give an authorised person a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—500 penalty units. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the authorised person, 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. In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is enough to state that the document was, without specifying which, ‘false or misleading’. s 157 ins 2003 No. 32 s 19 (sec.157-ssec.1) A person must not give an authorised person a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—500 penalty units. (sec.157-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the authorised person, 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.157-ssec.3) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is enough to state that the document was, without specifying which, ‘false or misleading’. - (a) tells the authorised person, 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.