New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 167A

167A Offence of making false complaint about conduct of police officer or giving false information

(1) A person must not make a complaint under this Part knowing the complaint to be false.

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

(2) A person must not, in the course of the investigation of a complaint made under this Part, provide information to any of the following knowing the information to be false or misleading in a material particular:

(a) the Minister,

(b) a member of the NSW Police Force,

(c) the Police Integrity Commission,

(d) the Inspector of the Police Integrity Commission,

(e) the Independent Commission Against Corruption,

(e1) the Inspector of the Independent Commission Against Corruption,

(f) the New South Wales Crime Commission,

(g) the Ombudsman,

(h) a member of Parliament,

(i) a prison officer within the meaning of section 127 (8).

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

(3) Proceedings for an offence against this section may be instituted at any time within 2 years after the offence is alleged to have been committed.