New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING AND STARR-BOWKETT SOCIETIES ACT 1998 - SECT 39

39 False or misleading statements

(1) In this section:
"relevant person" means a person exercising powers under this Act, and includes an inspector.

(2) A person must not:

(a) make a statement to the Registrar or a relevant person that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular, or

(b) omit from a statement made to the Registrar or a relevant person anything without which the statement is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular, or

(c) give to the Registrar or a relevant person a document containing information that the person knows is false, misleading or incomplete in a material particular without, at the same time:

(i) indicating that the document is false, misleading or incomplete and the respect in which it is false, misleading or incomplete, and

(ii) giving correct information if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.