New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL FUNDING ACT 2018 - SECT 146

146 False or misleading information

(1) A person who provides information to the Electoral Commission that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular--

(a) in or in connection with any application, claim, request, notice, declaration or other disclosure under this Act, or

(b) in purported compliance with any requirement imposed by or under this Act,

is guilty of an offence.

(2) A person who, in a document required to be lodged by or for the purposes of this Act, makes, or causes or permits the making of, a statement that is false or misleading in a material particular, without having taken reasonable steps to ensure that the statement was not false or misleading in a material particular, is guilty of an offence.

(3) A person who, in a document required to be lodged by or for the purposes of this Act, omits, or causes or permits the omission of, any matter or thing without which the document is misleading in a material particular, without having taken reasonable steps to ensure that the document did not omit any matter or thing without which the document would be misleading in a material particular, as the case may be, is guilty of an offence.

(4) A person who, in relation to any matter to be included in a document required to be lodged by or for the purposes of this Act, gives or withholds giving information to the person who is to lodge the document knowing that it will result in the making of a false or misleading statement in whole or in part is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--400 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.