Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2017A00047:clause:12_41af
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2017A00047
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 12 cl 41AF
Character Range: 74294–75296

41AF  False or misleading information or documents—civil penalty
 (1) A person contravenes this section if:
 (a) the person is given a notice under section 41AB; and
 (b) the person gives information, or produces a document, in compliance or purported compliance with the notice; and
 (c) the information or document is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum civil penalty:
 (a) for an individual—5,000 penalty units; and
 (b) for a body corporate—50,000 penalty units.
 (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.