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Sustainable Ports Development Act 2015
sec.43Giving false or misleading information
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### sec.43 Giving false or misleading information
A person must not, in relation to the administration of this Act, give the Minister information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—1,665 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving information in a document—
tells the Minister, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and
if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.
(sec.43-ssec.1) A person must not, in relation to the administration of this Act, give the Minister information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—1,665 penalty units.
(sec.43-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving information in a document— tells the Minister, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.
- (a) tells the Minister, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and
- (b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.