Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) A person must not in, or in relation to, an application for the carrying out of a working with children check or in connection with a re-assessment under section 21 give information that is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: Level 7 imprisonment (2 years maximum) or a level 7 fine (240 penalty units maximum) or both.
(2) In a proceeding for an offence against sub-section (1) it is a defence to the charge for the accused to prove that at the time at which the offence is alleged to have been committed, the accused believed on reasonable grounds—
(a) in the case of false information—that the information was true; or
(b) in the case of misleading information—that the information was not misleading.