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MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 268BJ

Offence: giving false or misleading document

  (1)   A person who gives or shows a document that is false or misleading in a material particular, in the course of complying or purporting to comply with a production or attendance notice, commits an offence.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 12 months.

  (2)   However, the person does not commit the offence if the document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person:

  (a)   stating that the document is, to the person's knowledge, false or misleading in the material particular concerned; and

  (b)   setting out or referring to the material particular.

Note:   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection   (2): see subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code .


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