EDUCATION SERVICES FOR OVERSEAS STUDENTS ACT 2000 - SECT 122A Offence: giving false or misleading document to TPS officer

EDUCATION SERVICES FOR OVERSEAS STUDENTS ACT 2000 - SECT 122A

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person is given a production notice under section   113A; and

  (b)   the person gives or shows a TPS officer a document in compliance or purported compliance with the notice; and

  (c)   the document is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 12 months.

  (2)   Subsection   ( 1) does not apply to a person 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 .