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Victims of Crime Assistance Act 1996
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67 False or misleading information
(1) A person must not in, or in relation to, an application for assistance give information that is false or misleading in a material particular.
1. 120 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months or both.
(2) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) it is a defence to the charge for the accused to prove that at the time at which the offence is alleged to have been committed, the accused believed on reasonable grounds—
(a) in the case of false information—that the information was true; or
(b) in the case of misleading information—that the information was not misleading.