PRIVATE HEALTH FACILITIES ACT 1999 - SECT 123 False or misleading documents

PRIVATE HEALTH FACILITIES ACT 1999 - SECT 123

123 False or misleading documents

(1) A person must not give an authorised person a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document—

(a) tells the authorised person, 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.

(3) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is enough to state that the document was, without specifying which, false or misleading.