Western Australian Consolidated Acts

WATER EFFICIENCY LABELLING AND STANDARDS ACT 2006 - SECT 62A

62A .         False or misleading information or documents

        (1)         A person commits an offence if —

            (a)         the person gives information to a WELS inspector under section 61(1) or 62(1); and

            (b)         the person does so knowing that the information —

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

                  (ii)         omits any matter or thing without which the information is misleading in a material particular.

        Penalty: a fine of 60 penalty units.

        (2)         A person commits an offence if —

            (a)         the person produces a book, record or document to a WELS inspector under section 61(1) or 62(1); and

            (b)         the person does so knowing that the document is false or misleading in a material particular.

        Penalty: a fine of 60 penalty units.

        (3)         Subsection (2) does not apply to a person who produces a book, record or document if the book, record or document is accompanied by a written statement signed by the person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a competent officer of the body corporate —

            (a)         stating that the book, record or document is, to the knowledge of the first mentioned person, false or misleading in a material particular; and

            (b)         setting out, or referring to, the material particular in which the book, record or document is, to the knowledge of the first mentioned person, false or misleading.

        Note:         This section does not appear in the Commonwealth Act but provisions to the same effect (except as to penalty) are included in Part 7.4 of the Criminal Code of the Commonwealth.