Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) In this section—
official means the chief executive, the commissioner, an authorised officer or an accredited person.
(2) A person must not give, for a transport Act, an official a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—
(a) if paragraph (b) does not apply—60 penalty units; or
(b) if the information relates to a heavy vehicle, a prescribed dangerous goods vehicle or the transport of dangerous goods—100 penalty units.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document—
(a) informs the official, to the best of the person's ability, how it is false or misleading; and
(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.
(4) It is enough for a complaint against a person for an offence against subsection (2) to state that the information given was false or misleading to the person's knowledge.