Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not give information to a person under this Act that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty--80 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to information given in a document, if the person when giving the document--
(a) informs the person being given the document, to the best of the person's ability, how the information is false or misleading; and
(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information--gives the correct information.
(3) It is enough for a complaint against a person for an offence against subsection (1) to state that the information was 'false or misleading', without specifying whether it was false or whether it was misleading.