Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person shall
not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail —
(a) to
attend before an authorised officer;
(b) to
be sworn or make an affirmation; or
(c) to
answer a question or produce an account, book, document or other record,
when so required in
pursuance of this Act.
Penalty: $1 000.
(2) A person shall
not —
(a)
knowingly obtain or attempt to obtain a payment under this Act that is not
payable; or
(b)
obtain or attempt to obtain a payment under this Act by means of a statement
that he knows to be false or misleading or by means of a document which to his
knowledge contains information that is false or misleading.
Penalty: $2 000 or imprisonment for
12 months.
(3) A person shall not
make to an authorised officer a statement that is false or misleading in a
material particular.
Penalty: $1 000.
(4) When a person is
convicted of an offence against subsection (2), the court may, in
addition to imposing a penalty under that subsection, order that person to
refund to the State the amount of any payment under this Act wrongfully
obtained.
(5) When a court has
made an order under subsection (4), a certificate signed by the
appropriate officer of the court specifying the amount ordered to be refunded
and the person by whom that amount is payable may be filed in a court having a
civil jurisdiction to the extent of that amount and is thereupon enforceable
in all respects as a final judgment of that court.
(6) Proceedings in
relation to an offence against this Act shall not be commenced later than one
year after the commission of the offence.