Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES CONVENTION ACT 1998 - SECT 26

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person produces a document, or a copy of a document, under section   22; and

  (b)   the document or copy is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 12 months.

Note:   Chapter   2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.

  (2)   Subsection   ( 1) does not apply to a person who produces a document, or a copy of a document, that, to the knowledge of the person, is false or misleading in a material particular if the document or copy is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate:

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

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