New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 188

188 False biosecurity certificates

(1) A person who issues, or purports to issue, a biosecurity certificate or purported biosecurity certificate is guilty of an offence if the certificate is false or misleading in a material particular.

(2) A person who alters or amends a biosecurity certificate, or purported biosecurity certificate, is guilty of an offence if the alteration or amendment makes the certificate false or misleading in a material particular.

(3) A certificate is false or misleading in a material particular if it--

(a) includes information that is false or misleading in a material particular, or

(b) omits material information.

(4) An offence against subsection (1) or (2) is a category 1 offence if the offence is committed intentionally or recklessly.

(5) In any other case, an offence against subsection (1) or (2) is a category 2 offence.

(6) A category 1 offence or category 2 offence against subsection (1) or (2) is an executive liability offence.

(7) In this section--

"biosecurity certificate" includes an interstate biosecurity certificate.