Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2019C00064:section:51
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2019C00064
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 51
Character Range: 72341–73237

51  False or misleading documents
 (1) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person produces a document to another person; and
 (b) the person does so knowing that the document is false or misleading in a material particular; and
 (c) the document is produced in compliance or purported compliance with section 38.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
 (2) 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.

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