Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 66AB

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person gives information to a police officer about an alleged sexual offence against a child; and

        (b)     the information is false or misleading in a material particular; and

        (c)     the person knows that the information—

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

              (ii)     omits something, without which, the information is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty:

        (a)     for an aggravated offence—125 penalty units, imprisonment for 16 months or both; or

        (b)     in any other case—100 penalty units, imprisonment for 12 months or both.

Note     Section 72AA (Aggravated offences—pt 3 offences involving family violence) makes provision in relation to an aggravated offence against this section.

    (2)     In this section:

"sexual offence"—see section 66AA (8).