(1)

A person is guilty of an offence if:

(a)

the person produces a document to another person; and

(b)

the person does so knowing that the document is false or misleading in a material particular; and

(c)

the document is produced in compliance or purported compliance with section 38.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.

(2)

Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who produces a document if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate:

(a)

stating that the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and

(b)

setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading.