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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1999 - SECT 569

569 False or misleading statements about reports

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a member of an organisation's management committee—
(i) gives members of the organisation a copy of its audit report and relevant accounts; or
(ii) presents the report and accounts to a general meeting or management committee meeting of the organisation; and
(b) the member comments on a matter dealt with in the report or accounts.

(2) The member must not state anything in the comment the member knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

(3) It is enough for a complaint for an offence against subsection (2) to state the statement made was 'false or misleading' to the member's knowledge.



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