Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

CONSUMER AND TRADER TRIBUNAL ACT 2003 (NO. 16 OF 2003) - SECT 58

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person produces a document to the tribunal, the registrar or a deputy registrar; and

        (b)     the person does so knowing that the document is false or misleading.

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units, imprisonment for 2 years or both.

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not apply if the document is not false or misleading in a material particular.

    (3)     Subsection (1) also does not apply to a person who produces a document if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person (or, for a corporation, by a competent officer of the corporation)—

        (a)     stating that the document is, to the 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 person's knowledge, false or misleading.