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EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 382 False or misleading statement

EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 382

False or misleading statement

382 False or misleading statement

(1) A person must not, for the purpose of obtaining a scholarship or allowance mentioned in section 368 (1) , give information to the Minister or chief executive the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
(2) A person must not, for the purpose of obtaining a scholarship or allowance mentioned in section 368 (1) , give the Minister or chief executive a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
(3) In giving the Minister the allowance acquittal details for a non-State school, a person must not give information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(4) In giving the Minister the allowance acquittal details for a non-State school, a person must not give a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(5) Subsections (2) and (4) do not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document—
(a) tells the Minister or chief executive, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and
(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.