South Australian Current Acts

ADVANCE CARE DIRECTIVES ACT 2013 - SECT 55

55—False or misleading statements

        (1)         A person who knowingly makes a false or misleading statement in, or in relation to, an advance care directive is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         if the defendant is a substitute decision-maker appointed under the advance care directive—$20 000 or imprisonment for 2 years;

            (b)         in any other case—$10 000.

        (2)         A person who knowingly makes a false or misleading statement in relation to an attempt to give an advance care directive is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

        (3)         For the purposes of subsection (1), a reference to a substitute decision-maker includes a reference to a person who is not but who was, at the relevant time, a substitute decision-maker appointed under the advance care directive.