Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 98B

98B False or misleading information

(1) A person who gives information to the Electoral Commission of Queensland under the Electoral Act 1992 or Referendums Act 1997 , including information in a document, that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular is guilty of a crime.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—7 years imprisonment.

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

(a) informs the other person, 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 other person the correct information.