Tasmanian Planning Commission Act 1997
17False or misleading evidence or information
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17 False or misleading evidence or information
(1) A person must not –
(a) give to the Commission information, or documents, that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; or
(b) at a hearing, give evidence, or produce a document, that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 20 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a document if, at the time when the person gives it to the Commission or produces it at a hearing, the person informs the Commission that it is false or misleading in a material particular and specifies in which respect it is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular.