Queensland Consolidated Acts

BUILDING ACT 1975 - SECT 203

203 False or misleading documents

(1) A person must not, in relation to an investigation or audit under this part, give QBCC a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—165 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document—

(a) tells QBCC, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and

(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information to QBCC.

(3) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is enough to state that the document was, without specifying which, false or misleading.