Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person gives information or an answer to the Registrar-General under the Electronic Conveyancing National Law (NT) or an instrument under the Law; and
(b) the person knows the information or answer is misleading.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person gives a document to the Registrar-General under the Electronic Conveyancing National Law (NT) or an instrument under the Law; and
(b) the person knows the document contains misleading information.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person, when giving the document:
(a) draws the misleading aspect of the document to the Registrar-General's attention; and
(b) to the extent to which the person can reasonably do so – gives the Registrar-General the information necessary to remedy the misleading aspect of the document.
(4) In this section:
"misleading information" means information that is misleading in a material particular or because of the omission of a material particular.