Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ACT 2022 - SECT 71

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person gives evidence or information, or produces a document, at a hearing; and

  (b)   the person does so knowing that the evidence, information or document:

  (i)   is false or misleading; or

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

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 5 years.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply if the evidence, 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 .