Victorian Current Acts

FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION ACT 2008 - SECT 153

    (1)     If under this Act a person is required or permitted to certify a document—

        (a)     the person must certify that the information contained in the document is true and correct to the best of the person's knowledge; and

S. 153(1)(b) amended by No. 33/2018 s. 28(1).

        (b)     the document must     include a statement that the person understands that making the certification knowing the document to be false in any particular constitutes an offence punishable by 600 penalty units or 5 years imprisonment or both.

S. 153(2) amended by No. 33/2018 s. 28(2).

    (2)     A person must not certify a document under this Act if the person knows it to be false in any particular.

Penalty:     600 penalty units or 5 years imprisonment or both.

S. 153A inserted by No. 33/2018 s. 29.