Western Australian Current Acts

PETROLEUM AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY SAFETY LEVIES ACT 2011 - SECT 20

20 .         False or misleading information

        (1)         A person must not, in compliance or purported compliance with a direction under section 18 or any other requirement under this Act, do any of the things set out in subsection (2).

        Penalty: a fine of $20 000.

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

            (a)         making a statement that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or

            (b)         making a statement that is false or misleading in a material particular, with reckless disregard as to whether or not the statement is false or misleading in a material particular; or

            (c)         providing, or causing to be provided, information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or

            (d)         providing, or causing to be provided, information that is false or misleading in a material particular, with reckless disregard as to whether or not the information is false or misleading in a material particular.