New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MOTOR DEALERS ACT 1974 - SECT 52A

52A Falsification of documents

(1) A person shall not, in respect of any particulars or information required under this Act to be entered in a register or in any notice or other document the form of which is prescribed under this Act, make an entry in the register, notice or document knowing that it is false or misleading in a material particular.

(2) In any proceedings under this section against any person for making an entry in a register, notice or document, if it is proved that the entry was false or misleading in a material particular, the person who made the entry shall be deemed to have made it with knowledge of its falsity or misleading character, as the case may be, unless the person proves that, having taken all reasonable precautions against committing an offence under this section, he or she had reasonable grounds to believe and did believe that the entry was true and had no reason to suspect that the entry was false or misleading.