70False or misleading documents

70 False or misleading documents (1) A person must not give the Chief Health Officer or an authorised officer, a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty: If the offender is a natural person – 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months. If the offender is a body corporate – 500 penalty units. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document: (a) tells the Chief Health Officer or authorised officer, to the best of the person's ability, how the document is false or misleading; and (b) gives the correct information to the Chief Health Officer or authorised officer if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information. (3) It is enough for a complaint against a person for an offence against subsection (1) to state the document was, without specifying which, false or misleading to the person's knowledge.