Queensland Consolidated Acts

INTERACTIVE GAMBLING (PLAYER PROTECTION) ACT 1998 - SECT 236

236 False, misleading or incomplete documents

(1) A person must not give an inspector a document containing information the person knows to be false, misleading or incomplete in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

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

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

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

(3) Also, 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, misleading or incomplete in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

(4) It is enough for a complaint for an offence against subsection (1) or (3) to state that the document or entry was false, misleading or incomplete to the person’s knowledge.