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HOMEFUND COMMISSIONER ACT 1993 - SECT 42

42 Offences

(1) A person must not:

(a) without lawful excuse, wilfully obstruct, hinder or resist the Commissioner or a member of the staff of the Commissioner in the exercise of functions under this or any other Act, or

(b) without lawful excuse, refuse or wilfully fail to comply with any lawful requirement of the Commissioner or a member of the staff of the Commissioner under this Act, or

(c) wilfully make any false statement to or mislead, or attempt to mislead, the Commissioner or a member of the staff of the Commissioner in the exercise of functions under this or any other Act.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(2) A person must not directly or indirectly:

(a) where the person is not the Commissioner-represent that he or she is the Commissioner, or

(b) where the person has not been appointed under this Act as acting Commissioner-represent that he or she has been so appointed, or

(c) where the person is not a person to whom a delegation has been made under this Act-represent that he or she is such a person, or

(d) where the person is not a member of the staff of the Commissioner-represent that he or she is a member of that staff.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a person represents that a state of affairs exists if the person does or says anything, or causes, permits or suffers anything to be done or said, whereby it is represented, or whereby a belief may be induced, that the state of affairs exists.