Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00499:section:32
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00499
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 32
Character Range: 44287–45254

32  False or misleading statements
  A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person answers a question asked by an authorised officer or gives a document to, or makes a document available for examination by, the Secretary or an authorised officer; and
 (b) the answer or the document is false or misleading in a material particular; and
 (c) the person knows that the answer or document is false or misleading in that particular.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
Note: Subsection 4B(2) of the Crimes Act 1914 allows a court that convicts an individual of an offence to impose a fine instead of, or in addition to, a term of imprisonment. The maximum fine that a court can impose on the individual is worked out by multiplying the maximum term of imprisonment (in months) by 5, and then multiplying the amount of a penalty unit by the resulting number. The amount of a penalty unit is stated in section 4AA of that Act.

Part 10—Penalty in lieu of prosecution