Western Australian Current Acts

VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING ACT 2019 - SECT 102

102 .         False or misleading information

        (1)         A person commits a crime if the person does anything set out in subsection (2) —

            (a)         in, or in connection with, a form, declaration or other document required under this Act; or

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

            (c)         for any other purpose under this Act.

        Penalty for this subsection: imprisonment for 7 years.

        Summary conviction penalty for this subsection: imprisonment for 3 years and a fine of $36 000.

        (2)         The things to which subsection (1) applies are making a statement or giving information that —

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

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