LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 234 False or misleading information

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 234

234 False or misleading information

(1) A person commits an offence if the person gives information for this Act (either orally or in a document), that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular, to any of the following persons—

(a) the Minister;

(b) the department’s chief executive;

(c) the chief executive officer;

(d) the chief executive officer under the City of Brisbane Act 2010 ;

(e) an authorised person;

(f) the change commission;

(g) the assessor or a member of the staff of the Office of the Independent Assessor;

(h) an investigator;

(i) the conduct tribunal;

(j) the remuneration commission;

(k) the grants commission.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

Note—

In certain circumstances this section is a relevant integrity provision for the offence against section 201D —see section 201D (2) , definition relevant integrity provision .

(2) However, the person does not commit an offence in relation to information in a document if, when the person gives the document to the other person—

(a) the person tells the other person that the document is false or misleading, and in what respect the document is false or misleading; and

(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—the person gives the other person the correct information.