54False or misleading evidence or documents

54 False or misleading evidence or documents

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if: (a) at a hearing, the person gives evidence or produces a document; and (b) the person knows that the evidence or document is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 6 months.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a document if, at the time when the person produces it at a hearing or gives it to the Commission, the person informs the Commission that it is false or misleading in a material particular and specifies in what respect it is, to the person’s knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular.