Queensland Numbered Acts

MEDICINES AND POISONS ACT 2019 - SECT 48

48 Offence for giving or keeping false, misleading or incomplete information and records

(1) This section applies to a person who—

(a) gives information to the chief executive, whether orally or in a document—

(i) for the purpose of obtaining or keeping an authorisation under this Act; or

(ii) in response to a request for information under this Act; or

(b) is required under this Act to keep a record.

(2) The person must not—

(a) give the chief executive information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or

(b) make or keep a record the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or

(c) make or keep a record the person knows is incomplete in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

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

(a) tells the chief executive, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and

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