Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

TEXTILE, CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR INVESTMENT AND INNOVATION PROGRAMS ACT 1999 - SECT 51

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person produces a document to another person; 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 section   38.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 12 months.

  (2)   Subsection   ( 1) does not apply to a person who produces a document if the document 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 is, to the knowledge of the first - mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and

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