Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) A person must not, for the purposes of this Act, give someone (the recipient ) a document that contains information the person knows to be misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty: 400 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) However, subsection (1) does not apply if the person, when giving the document:
(a) draws the misleading aspect of the document to the recipient's attention; and
(b) to the extent the person can reasonably do so – gives the recipient the information necessary to correct the document.