Western Australian Current Acts

HISTORICAL HOMOSEXUAL CONVICTIONS EXPUNGEMENT ACT 2018 - SECT 28

28 .         Offence to give false or misleading information

        (1)         A person must not do anything set out in subsection (2) —

            (a)         in, or in connection with, an application made or a notice or other document given under this Act; or

            (b)         in compliance, or purported compliance, with a requirement or request under this Act; or

            (c)         for any other purpose under this Act.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $10 000.

        (2)         The things to which subsection (1) applies are as follows —

            (a)         making a statement knowing it to be false or misleading in a material particular;

            (b)         omitting from a statement made anything without which the statement is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular;

            (c)         giving information that —

                  (i)         the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or

                  (ii)         omits anything without which the information, to the person’s knowledge, is misleading in a material particular.