Queensland Consolidated Acts

FIRST HOME OWNER GRANT AND OTHER HOME OWNER GRANTS ACT 2000 - SECT 42

42 False or misleading documents

(1) A person must not give to the commissioner or an authorised officer a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—70 penalty units.

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

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

(b) if the person has, or can reasonably get, the correct information—gives the correct information to the commissioner or officer.

(3) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is enough for a charge to state that the document was, without specifying which, ‘false or misleading’.