Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not give the regulator, an electricity officer or an inspection officer a document containing information the person knows is false, misleading or incomplete in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document—
(a) informs the regulator, inspection officer or electricity officer, to the best of the person's ability, how it is false, misleading or incomplete; and
(b) gives the correct information to the regulator, inspection officer or electricity officer if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information.
(3) A complaint against a person for an offence against subsection (1) is sufficient if it states the document was false, misleading or incomplete to the person's knowledge.