ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 319 Responses to official questions
ELECTORAL ACT 1992 - SECT 319
Responses to official questions(1) A person shall not, in answer to an official question, make a statement that is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
(2) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) if it is established that the defendant did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the relevant statement was false or misleading in a material particular.
(3) In this section:
"official question" means a question—
(a) asked by the commissioner or an officer in the exercise of the commissioner or officer's functions under this Act; or
(b) in a form approved under section 340A or otherwise authorised by the commissioner.