sec.514False or misleading documents

### sec.514 False or misleading documents A person must not give the authority a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the authority, 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. It is enough for a complaint for an offence against subsection (1) to state that the document was false or misleading to the person’s knowledge. (sec.514-ssec.1) A person must not give the authority a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. (sec.514-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the authority, 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.514-ssec.3) It is enough for a complaint for an offence against subsection (1) to state that the document was false or misleading to the person’s knowledge. - (a) tells the authority, 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.