(1)  A person must not give the Director of Public Health or an authorised officer a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 500 penalty units.

(2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document to the Director of Public Health or authorised officer –

(a) tells the Director of Public Health or authorised officer, to the best of the person's ability, how the document is false or misleading; and

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

(3)  It is enough for a complaint against a person for an offence against subsection (1) to state that the document is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular without specifying whether the document is false or whether it is misleading.