Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800:section:268bj
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 268BJ
Character Range: 895093–895838

268BJ  Offence: giving false or misleading document
 (1) A person who gives or shows a document that is false or misleading in a material particular, in the course of complying or purporting to comply with a production or attendance notice, commits an offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
 (2) However, the person does not commit the offence if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person:
 (a) stating that the document is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading in the material particular concerned; and
 (b) setting out or referring to the material particular.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (2): see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code.