49Misleading information and document

49 Misleading information and document (1) A person must not knowingly give misleading information to a police officer or inspector who is exercising a power or performing a function under this Act. Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment (2) A person must not knowingly give a document containing misleading information to a police officer or inspector who is exercising a power or performing a function under this Act. Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment (3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person, when giving the document: (a) draws the misleading aspect of the document to the attention of the police officer or inspector; and

Traffic Act 1987 104 (b) to the extent to which the person can reasonably do so – gives the police officer or inspector the information necessary to remedy the misleading aspect of the document. (4) In this section: misleading information means information that is misleading in a material particular because it: (a) does not include relevant information; or (b) includes false information.