Commonwealth Numbered Acts

EXPORT MARKET DEVELOPMENT GRANTS ACT 1974 No. 154 of 1974 - SECT 40

40. (1) Where any amount of grant to a person has been paid in consequence of
the making of a statement, or the presentation of a book, record or document,
by or on behalf of the person that was, whether or not to the knowledge of the
person, false or misleading, an amount equal to the amount so paid is
recoverable from the person by Australia in a court of competent jurisdiction
as a debt due to Australia.

(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), a certificate purporting to be signed
by the Chairman, or by a person for the time being acting in the office of
Chairman, and stating that an amount of grant has been paid in consequence of
the making of a statement, or the presentation of a book, record or document,
is, upon mere production, receivable as prima facie evidence of that fact.