Queensland Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES AND ROOMING ACCOMMODATION ACT 2008 - SECT 514

514 False or misleading documents

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

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

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

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