Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A01360:clause:1_20
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A01360
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 20
Character Range: 19640–20954

20  Producing false or misleading documents in relation to foreign travel document applications

 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person produces a document to another person; and
 (b) the document is false or misleading; and
 (c) the document is produced in, or in connection with, an application for a foreign travel document.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years or 1,000 penalty units, or both.

 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the document is not false or misleading in a material particular.

Note: The defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2). See subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.

 (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who produces a document if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person (or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate):
 (a) stating that the document is, to the knowledge of the first‑mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and
 (b) setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the knowledge of the first‑mentioned person, false or misleading.

Note: The defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (3). See subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.