Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 175L

175L False or misleading information or documents

(1) A relevant mature age student of a mature age State school must not give information to the school’s principal under this part that the student knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(2) A relevant mature age student of a mature age State school must not give a document to the school’s principal under this part that contains information the student knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a relevant mature age student if the student, when giving the document to the principal—

(a) tells the principal, to the best of the student’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and

(b) gives the correct information to the principal if the student has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.