Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person shall not, in answer to an official question, make a statement that is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
(2) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) if it is established that the defendant did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the relevant statement was false or misleading in a material particular.
(3) In this section:
"official question" means a question asked by an officer in the exercise of his or her functions under this Act.