sec.278False, misleading or incomplete documents

sec.278 False, misleading or incomplete documents

A person must not give an inspector a document containing information the person knows to be false, misleading or incomplete in a material particular. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the inspector, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false, misleading or incomplete; and if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information. Also, a person must not make an entry in a document required or permitted to be made or kept under this Act knowing the entry to be false, misleading or incomplete in a material particular. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. It is enough for a complaint for an offence against subsection (1) or (3) to state that the document or entry was false, misleading or incomplete to the person’s knowledge. (sec.278-ssec.1) A person must not give an inspector a document containing information the person knows to be false, misleading or incomplete in a material particular. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. (sec.278-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the inspector, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false, misleading or incomplete; and if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information. (sec.278-ssec.3) Also, a person must not make an entry in a document required or permitted to be made or kept under this Act knowing the entry to be false, misleading or incomplete in a material particular. Maximum penalty—40 penalty units. (sec.278-ssec.4) It is enough for a complaint for an offence against subsection (1) or (3) to state that the document or entry was false, misleading or incomplete to the person’s knowledge.

• (a) tells the inspector, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false, misleading or incomplete; and
• (b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.