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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 491

Providing false or misleading information to authorised officer etc.

  (1)   A person commits an offence if the person:

  (a)   provides information or a document to another person (the recipient ); and

  (b)   knows the recipient is:

  (i)   an authorised officer; or

  (ii)   the Minister; or

  (iii)   an employee or officer in the Department; or

  (iv)   a commissioner;

    performing a duty or carrying out a function under this Act or the regulations; and

  (c)   knows the information or document is false or misleading in a material particular.

  (2)   The offence is punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a term not more than 1 year, a fine not more than 60 penalty units, or both.

Note:   Subsection   4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914 lets a court fine a body corporate up to 5 times the maximum amount the court could fine a person under this subsection.


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