Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW TRIBUNAL ACT 2024 - SECT 118

  (1)   A person appearing before the Tribunal to give evidence commits an offence if the person:

  (a)   gives evidence; and

  (b)   does so knowing that the evidence:

  (i)   is false or misleading; or

  (ii)   omits any matter or thing without which the evidence is misleading.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 12 months or 60 penalty units, or both.

Note:   Giving false testimony is also subject to the offence under section   35 of the Crimes Act 1914 .

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply if the evidence is not false or misleading in a material particular.

Note:   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in this subsection   (see subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code ).