Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00528:section:31
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00528
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 31
Character Range: 44361–45707

31  Producing false or misleading documents in relation to Australian travel documents
 (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:
 (i) an application for an Australian travel document; or
 (ii) an Australian 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.