Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person commits an offence if the person:
(a) provides information or a document to another person (the recipient ); and
(b) knows the recipient is:
(i) an authorised officer; or
(ii) the Minister; or
(iii) an employee or officer in the Department; or
(iv) a commissioner;
performing a duty or carrying out a function under this Act or the regulations; and
(c) knows the information or document is false or misleading in a material particular.
(2) The offence is punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a term not more than 1 year, a fine not more than 60 penalty units, or both.
Note: Subsection 4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914 lets a court fine a body corporate up to 5 times the maximum amount the court could fine a person under this subsection.