Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 924

924 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—40 penalty units.

(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—40 penalty units.

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

(5) A person must not be prosecuted for an offence against this section if the person can be prosecuted for an offence under section 488 .

(6) In this section—

"official" means any of the following—

(a) an inspector;

(b) an authorised industrial officer;

(c) the registrar.