Queensland Consolidated Acts

DEBT COLLECTORS (FIELD AGENTS AND COLLECTION AGENTS) ACT 2014 - SECT 138

138 False or misleading documents

(1) A person must not, for this Act, give an official a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

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

(a) informs the official, 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.

(3) A person must not make an entry in a document required or permitted to be made or kept under this Act knowing the entry to be false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.