Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not knowingly give to an inspector acting in an official capacity:
(a) misleading information; or
(b) a document containing misleading information.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
(2) Subsection (1)(b) does not apply if the person, when giving the document:
(a) draws the misleading aspect of the document to the inspector's attention; and
(b) to the extent to which the person can reasonably do so – gives the inspector the information necessary to remedy the misleading aspect of the document.
(3) In this section:
"misleading information" means information that is misleading in a material particular or because of the omission of a material particular.