New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 701

701 False or misleading statements

(1) A person commits an offence if the person makes a statement to an official that the person knows is false or misleading.

: Maximum penalty--$10000.

Editorial note--: See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(2) A person commits an offence if the person--

(a) makes a statement to an official that is false or misleading; and

(b) is reckless as to whether the statement is false or misleading.

: Maximum penalty--$8000.

Editorial note--: See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply even if the statement was not given in response to, or in purported compliance with, a direction or requirement under this Law.

(4) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) or (2), it is enough for a charge to state that the statement made was 'false or misleading', without specifying whether it was false or whether it was misleading.

(5) In this section--

"official" includes--

(a) TCA exercising a function under Chapter 7; and

(b) a person exercising a function under this Law under the direction or authority of an official.