Queensland Numbered Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 No. 17 - SECT 234

(1) A person commits an offence if the person gives information for this Act (either orally or in a document), that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular, to any of the following persons--

(a) the Minister;

(b) the department's chief executive;

(c) the chief executive officer;

(d) an authorised person;

(e) the change commission;

(f) a regional conduct review panel;

(g) the tribunal;

(h) the grants commission.

Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.

(2) However, the person does not commit an offence in relation to information in a document if, when the person gives the document to the other person--

(a) the person tells the other person that the document is false or misleading, and in what respect the document is false or misleading; and

(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information--the person gives the other person the correct information.