Radiation Protection Act 2005
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71 False or misleading documents
(1) A person must not give the Director of Public Health or an authorised officer a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document to the Director of Public Health or authorised officer –
(a) tells the Director of Public Health 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 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 that the document is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular without specifying whether the document is false or whether it is misleading.