Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COUNTER-TERRORISM (TEMPORARY EXCLUSION ORDERS) ACT 2019 - SECT 22

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person gives information or produces a document to a person or body; and

  (b)   the person does so in response to a condition imposed on a return permit given to the person; and

  (c)   the person does so knowing that the information or document is false or misleading.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 2 years.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply if the information or document 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 ).