Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00561:section:122a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00561
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 122A
Character Range: 179131–179963

122A  Offence: giving false or misleading document to TPS officer
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person is given a production notice under section 113A; and
 (b) the person gives or shows a TPS officer a document in compliance or purported compliance with the notice; and
 (c) the document is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person:
 (a) stating that the document is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading in the material particular concerned; and
 (b) setting out or referring to the material particular.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2): see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.