Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) A person who contravenes section 62 commits an offence.
Maximum penalty--200 penalty units or 1 years imprisonment.
(2) A person must comply with a production requirement unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty--30 penalty units.
(3) A person must not state anything to the commission, in response to a production requirement, that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty--30 penalty units.
(4) A person must not give to the commission, in response to a production requirement, a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty--30 penalty units.
(5) Subsection (4) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document--
(a) informs the commission, to the best of the person's ability, how it is false or misleading; and
(b) gives the correct information to the commission, if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.
(6) For a proceeding for an offence against subsection (3) or (4)--
(a) it is enough for the complaint starting the proceeding to state the relevant statement or document was 'false or misleading' to the defendant's knowledge, without specifying which; and
(b) in the proceeding, evidence that the statement or document was made or given recklessly is evidence that it was made or given so as to be false or misleading.
(7) An offence against this Act is a summary offence.