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Traffic Act 1987
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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
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(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.