New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TOTALIZATOR ACT 1997 - SECT 112

112 False or misleading information

(1) A person who--

(a) in, or in relation to, any application made under this Act, or

(b) in purported compliance with a requirement of a notice under this Act, or

(c) in purporting to provide information under this Act that the person has been authorised to provide,

gives information that is false or misleading in a material particular is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.

(2) It is a defence to a prosecution of a person for an offence under subsection (1) if it is proved that, at the time the information was given, the person believed, on reasonable grounds--

(a) in the case of false information--that the information was true, or

(b) in the case of misleading information--that the information was not misleading.