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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