Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00049:section:71
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00049
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 71
Character Range: 114204–114912

71  Offence—giving false or misleading evidence, information or documents
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person gives evidence or information, or produces a document, at a hearing; and
 (b) the person does so knowing that the evidence, information or document:
 (i) is false or misleading; or
 (ii) omits any matter or thing without which the evidence, information or document is misleading.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the evidence, information or document is not false or misleading in a material particular.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in this subsection: see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.