Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00104:section:529
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00104
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 529
Character Range: 735520–736608

529  Civil penalty provision for false or misleading information
 (1) An entity is liable to a civil penalty if:
 (a) the entity gives information in compliance or purported compliance with this Act; and
 (b) the entity does so knowing that the information:
 (i) is false or misleading in a material particular; or
 (ii) omits any matter or thing without which the information is misleading in a material particular.
Civil penalty: 100 penalty units.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if, before the information was given by an entity to another person (the official) in compliance or purported compliance with this Act, the official did not take reasonable steps to inform the entity that the entity may be liable to a civil penalty for contravening subsection (1).
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in this subsection: see section 96 of the Regulatory Powers Act.
 (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), it is sufficient if the following form of words is used:
  "You may be liable to a civil penalty for giving false or misleading information".