Queensland Consolidated Acts

BODY CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 298

298 False or misleading documents

(1) A person must not give the commissioner or an adjudicator (each the
"receiver" ) a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document—

(a) informs the receiver, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and

(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information to the receiver.

(3) It is enough for a complaint under the Justices Act 1886 against a person for an offence against subsection (1) to state that the document was false or misleading to the person’s knowledge.