Queensland Consolidated Acts

QUEENSLAND BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMISSION ACT 1991 - SECT 108C

108C False or misleading document

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

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

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

(a) tells 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—100 penalty units.

(4) This section does not apply to a document to which section 53B applies.

(5) In this section—

"official" means—

(a) the commission; or

(b) an investigator performing a function or exercising a power under this Act.