HOUSING ACT 2003 - SECT 17
False or misleading information
HOUSING ACT 2003 - SECT 17
False or misleading information
17 False or misleading information
(1) A person must not give the chief executive or a funded providerhousing service information that the person knows is false or misleading in a
material particular.
Examples—
1 A person applies to the chief executive
for a loan to buy a house. The application includes false information about
the person’s financial circumstances.
2 A person applies to the chief
executive to be provided with rental accommodation. The application is
accompanied by a declaration about the person’s income, made by the
person’s employer, that the person knows to be false.
3 A person is renting
a house from a funded provider. In response to a query from the
funded provider, the person gives false information about the income of
persons living in the house.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does
not apply to a person who gives the chief executive or a funded provider a
document containing housing service information if the person, when giving the
document—
(a) tells the chief executive or the funded provider, 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.