Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Legal Aid Act 1978 - SECT 44

False statements

44. False statements



(1) A person who in or in connexion with an application for legal assistance
or the provision of legal assistance under this Act-

   (a)  knowingly makes a false statement; or

   (b)  supplies information that person knows to be false; or

   (c)  fails to disclose information which that person knows to be relevant
        to the application or to the provision of legal assistance-

is guilty of an offence. Penalty: 25 penalty units or imprisonment for six
months.

(2) Despite anything to the contrary in any Act, proceedings for any offence
against this section may be brought within the period of three years after the
commission of the alleged offence, or with the consent of the Director of
Public Prosecutions, at any later time.