Queensland Numbered Acts

PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE ACT 2018 - SECT 84

84 False or misleading information

(1) A person must not, in relation to the administration of this Act, give an authority information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the information in a document—

(a) tells the authority, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and

(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.

(3) In this section—

"authority" means—

(a) the chief executive; or

(b) the commissioner; or

(c) the assistant commissioner; or

(d) the council; or

(e) a local government; or

(f) an inspector.