THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 1989 - SECT 41AF False or misleading information or documents--civil penalty

THERAPEUTIC GOODS ACT 1989 - SECT 41AF

  (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.