Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 404D

404D False or misleading document

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

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.

Notes—

1 This provision is an executive liability provision—see section 412A .

2 If a corporation commits an offence against this provision, an executive officer of the corporation may be taken, under section 412B , to have also committed the offence.

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

(a) tells the recipient, 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) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is enough to state the document was ‘false or misleading’ to the person’s knowledge, without specifying which.