Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES CONVENTION ACT 1998 - SECT 26

(1)

A person is guilty of an offence if:

(a)

the person produces a document, or a copy of a document, under section 22; and

(b)

the document or copy is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.

Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.

(2)

Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who produces a document, or a copy of a document, that, to the knowledge of the person, is false or misleading in a material particular if the document or copy 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 or copy is, to the knowledge of the person, false or misleading in a material particular; and

(b)

setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document or copy is, to the knowledge of the person, false or misleading.