HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 1991 - SECT 50

HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 1991 - SECT 50

50 .         False or misleading statements and records

        (1)         A person who in, or in relation to, any —

            (a)         application, disciplinary proceedings or matter to be determined by the CEO; or

            (b)         return or other record required, made, maintained, kept or produced under or for the purposes of this Act,

                makes a statement that —

            (c)         is false or misleading in a material particular; or

            (d)         has omitted from it a matter or thing the omission of which renders the information misleading in a material respect,

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $5 000.

        (2)         It is a defence to a prosecution of a person for an offence under subsection (1) if that person proves that when the statement was made the person —

            (a)         believed on reasonable grounds that the false matter was true;

            (b)         believed on reasonable grounds that the misleading matter was not misleading;

            (c)         in the case of an omission, believed on reasonable grounds —

                  (i)         that no material had been omitted, being material matter the omission of which would make the statement false or misleading; or

                  (ii)         that the omitted matter was not material.

        (3)         A person who, by an act intended to falsify or destroy the record, alters or destroys any record required, made, maintained, kept or produced under this Act commits an offence.

        Penalty: $5 000.

        [Section 50 amended: No. 55 of 2004 s. 540; No. 28 of 2006 s. 270(1).]