Queensland Consolidated Regulations

BUILDING FIRE SAFETY REGULATION 2008 - REG 70

70 False or misleading documents

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

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

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

(a) tells the authorised fire officer, 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 this section—

"document" means—

(a) a prescribed document for a building; or

(b) a document about the maintenance of prescribed fire safety installations for a building, including, for example, a record required under an Australian Standard mentioned in QDC, part MP6.1.