Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not give an official a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty--50 penalty units or 1 year's imprisonment.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document--
(a) tells the official, to the best of the person's ability, how it is false, misleading or incomplete; and
(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information--gives the correct information.
(3) It is enough for a complaint for an offence against subsection (1) to state the document was 'false or misleading' to the person's knowledge, without stating which.