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CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ACT 2007 (NO 37 OF 2007) - SECT 274 Misleading document

CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ACT 2007 (NO 37 OF 2007) - SECT 274

Misleading document

    (1)     A person must not, for the purposes of this Part, give the Commissioner any document that contains information the person knows to be misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty:     100 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.

    (2)     However, subsection (1) does not apply if the person, when giving the document:

    (a)     draws the misleading aspect of the document to the Commissioner's attention; and

    (b)     to the extent the person can reasonably do so – gives the Commissioner the information necessary to correct the document.