Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CONFISCATION OF CRIMINAL ASSETS ACT 2003 - SECT 232

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person produces a document to a police officer or a person assisting a police officer; and

        (b)     the person does so knowing that the document is false or misleading in a material particular; and

        (c)     the document is produced in compliance (or purported compliance) with a requirement under this part.

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units, imprisonment for 2 years or both.

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who produces a document to a police officer or person assisting if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person (or, for a corporation, by an officer of the corporation)—

        (a)     stating that the document is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular; and

        (b)     setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the document is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading.