Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) A person commits an offence if—
(a) the person gives a relevant document to someone else; and
(b) the person does so knowing that the relevant document—
(i) is false or misleading; or
(ii) omits anything without which the document is misleading.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) (b) (i) does not apply if the document is not false or misleading in a material particular.
(3) Subsection (1) (b) (ii) does not apply if the omission does not make the document misleading in a material particular.
(4) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who gives a document if the document is accompanied by a signed statement—
(a) stating that the document is, to the signing person's knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular; and
(b) setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the signing person's knowledge, false or misleading.
(5) The statement under subsection (4) must be signed by—
(a) the person; or
(b) if the person who produces the document is a corporation—by an executive officer of the corporation.
(6) In this section:
"relevant document"—see section 37.