Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) In this section
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record has the meaning given in section 19C.
(2) A person must not
give false or misleading information to —
(a) an
authorised officer pursuant to a direction under section 19D(1); or
(b) the
Commission pursuant to a notice under section 13; or
(c) any
person pursuant to a requirement under this Act to give information, or
produce a record, to that person relating to the production, processing, sale
or purchase of agricultural produce or the payment or collection of a charge
imposed under this Act.
Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $1 000.
(3) For the purposes
of subsection (2), a person gives false or misleading information if the
person does 1 or more of the following —
(a)
states anything that the person knows is false or misleading in a material
particular;
(b)
omits from a statement anything without which the statement is, to the
person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular;
(c)
gives or produces any record that —
(i)
the person knows is false or misleading in a material
particular; or
(ii)
omits anything without which the record is, to the
person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular.
[Section 19G inserted: No. 11 of 2021 s. 27.]