Working with Children Check Act 2000
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sec.352 False or misleading documents
A person must not give the chief executive a document for chapter 7 , this chapter or chapter 10 , part 1A containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment. Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the chief executive, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information. s 352 ins 2010 No. 5 s 58 amd 2014 No. 28 s 55 ; 2019 No. 18 s 57 ; 2024 No. 50 s 105 (sec.352-ssec.1) A person must not give the chief executive a document for chapter 7 , this chapter or chapter 10 , part 1A containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment. (sec.352-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document— tells the chief executive, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.
- (a) tells the chief executive, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and
- (b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.