Queensland Consolidated Acts

TOBACCO AND OTHER SMOKING PRODUCTS ACT 1998 - SECT 46

46 False, misleading or incomplete documents

(1) A person must not give to an authorised person a document containing information the person knows is false, misleading or incomplete in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

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

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

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

(3) It is enough for a complaint against a person for an offence against subsection (1) to state that the statement made was false, misleading or incomplete to the person’s knowledge.