HOME BUILDING ACT 1989 - SECT 103EA
False or misleading applications for insurance
HOME BUILDING ACT 1989 - SECT 103EA
False or misleading applications for insurance
103EA False or misleading applications for insurance
(1) A person must not, in connection with an application to a licensed insurer
for insurance under this Part, make a statement (whether orally, in a document
or in any other way) knowing that, or being reckless as to whether, the
statement--
(a) is false or misleading, or
(b) omits any matter or thing
without which the statement is misleading.
: Maximum penalty--200 penalty
units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply as a result of subsection (1)(a) if
the statement is not false or misleading in a material particular.
(3)
Subsection (1) does not apply as a result of subsection (1)(b) if the
statement did not omit any matter or thing without which the statement is
misleading in a material particular.
(4) The burden of establishing a matter
referred to in subsection (2) or (3) lies on the accused person.