Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts26. False or misleading statements in applications
(1) A person shall not, in or in relation to an application for the grant or renewal of a licence, make a statement that is false or misleading by reason of the inclusion of any false or misleading matter or the omission of any material matter.
Penalty: $2,000.
(2) It is a defence to a charge under subsection (1) for the accused to prove that, at the time the statement was made, the accused -
(a) believed on reasonable grounds that the false matter was true or, as the case requires, that the misleading matter was not misleading; or
(b) in the case of an omission -
(i) believed on reasonable grounds that no material matter had been omitted; or
(ii) did not know that the omitted matter was material.