New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK (CHEMICAL RESIDUES) ACT 1975 - SECT 12D

12D Providing false or misleading information

(1) A person must not, in making a statement or providing information for the purposes of this Act, make a statement or provide information to the Minister or a person engaged in the administration of this Act, or to any other person, that is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) A person must not, in connection with a sale or disposition or proposed sale or disposition of stock, make a statement or provide information in relation to:

(a) the presence or absence of chemicals in stock, carcasses or land, or

(b) whether stock are chemically affected, or

(c) any matter relevant to an assessment of the likelihood of chemical residues in stock, or

(d) any other matter prescribed by the regulations,

that is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(3) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against this section if the defendant satisfies the court:

(a) in the case of a prosecution in relation to making a false statement or providing false information, that the defendant reasonably believed that the statement or information was true, or

(b) in the case of a prosecution in relation to making a misleading statement or providing misleading information, that the defendant had no intention, in making the statement or providing the information, to mislead.