Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 199

199 .         False or misleading information to fisheries officer, offence

                A person must not —

            (a)         state anything to a fisheries officer that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or

            (b)         omit from a statement made to a fisheries officer anything without which the statement is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular; or

            (c)         give or produce any document to a fisheries officer that —

                  (i)         the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or

                  (ii)         omits anything without which the document is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular.

        Penalty: In the case of an individual, $10 000 and imprisonment for one year or, in the case of a body corporate, $20 000.