Queensland Consolidated Acts

QUEENSLAND CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2009 - SECT 216

216 False or misleading information

(1) A person must not state to an official anything the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(2) 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.

(3) Subsection (2) 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.

(4) In this section—

"official" —

(a) includes—

(i) a registry staff member; and

(ii) a Magistrates Court staff member performing a function of the principal registrar delegated to the member under section 210 (2) ; and

(b) does not include a conciliator or mediator.