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GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 192

False or misleading information or document

    A person must not:

  (a)   in connection with an application made to the Regulator under this Act or the regulations; or

  (b)   in compliance or purported compliance with this Act or the regulations;

do either of the following:

  (c)   give information (whether orally or in writing) that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular;

  (d)   produce a document that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular without:

  (i)   indicating to the person to whom the document is produced that it is false or misleading, and the respect in which it is false or misleading; and

  (ii)   providing correct information to that person, if the person producing the document is in possession of, or can reasonably acquire, the correct information.

Maximum penalty:   Imprisonment for 1 year or 60 penalty units.

Note:   Chapter   2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.


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