Queensland Consolidated Acts

BUILDING INDUSTRY FAIRNESS (SECURITY OF PAYMENT) ACT 2017 - SECT 200C

200C Giving official false or misleading information

(1) A person must not, in relation to the administration of this Act, give an official information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) applies to information whether or not the information was given in response to a specific power under this Act.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving information in a document—

(a) tells the official, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and

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

(4) In this section—

"official" means the commissioner, the registrar of titles or a special investigator.