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BIODISCOVERY ACT 2004 - SECT 53

53 False or misleading documents given by applicant

(1) A person, in making an application for a collection authority, must not give the EPA chief executive a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.

(2) A person, in making an application for approval of a biodiscovery plan, must not give the DSDI chief executive a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (1) or (2) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document--

(a) informs the chief executive, to the best of the person's ability, how it is false or misleading; and
(b) gives the correct information to the chief executive if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.


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