Western Australian Current Acts

SHORT-TERM RENTAL ACCOMMODATION ACT 2024 - SECT 40

40 .         False or misleading information

        (1)         A person must not do a thing described 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 with, or purported compliance with, a requirement, direction or request under this Act; or

            (c)         for any other purpose under this Act.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $20 000.

        (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 a thing without which the statement is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular;

            (c)         giving information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular;

            (d)         giving information that omits a thing without which the statement is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular.