Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) A person must not provide information to an authorised officer or investigator that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: 30 penalty units in the case of a natural person;
60 penalty units in the case of a body corporate.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), a person must not give an authorised officer or investigator a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: 30 penalty units in the case of a natural person;
60 penalty units in the case of a body corporate.
(3) A person may give an authorised officer or investigator a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular if the person, when giving the document—
(a) informs the authorised officer or investigator, as the case requires, to the best of the person's ability, how it is false or misleading; and
(b) gives the correct information to the authorised officer or investigator, as the case requires, if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.