Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts21. False or misleading information or documents
(1) A person must not make a statement to a party that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
(2) A person must not give to a party a document that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document to the party -
(a) informs the party, to the best of the person's ability, how the document is false or misleading; and
(b) if the person is able to obtain the correct information - gives that information to the party.
(4) Subsection (3) does not require the party to tell someone that a document is false or misleading, or to disclose information, if the probable effect would be to alert a person suspected of fraud to the suspicion.
(5) It is sufficient for a complaint against a person for an offence against subsection (1) or (2) to state the information or document was to the person's knowledge false or misleading, but it is not necessary to specify whether it was false or whether it was misleading.