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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Regulation of immigration advisers - Offences

66: Offence to provide false or misleading information

You could also call this:

“You can get in trouble for giving wrong information when applying for a licence”

You should not give false or misleading information when you apply for a licence or try to renew one under this law. If you knowingly provide false or misleading information, you are committing a crime. Even if you don’t know the information is false, you can still be in trouble if you didn’t try hard enough to make sure it was true.

If you knowingly give false information, you could go to jail for up to 2 years or have to pay up to $10,000, or both. If you give false information without knowing it, but you didn’t check carefully enough, you might have to pay up to $10,000.

You can defend yourself if you’re accused of giving false information without knowing it. You need to show that you tried really hard to make sure the information was correct.

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Part 1 Regulation of immigration advisers
Offences

66Offence to provide false or misleading information

  1. A person commits an offence who, for the purposes of any application for a licence or for renewal of a licence under this Act,—

  2. supplies to the Authority any false or misleading information, knowing it to be false or misleading; or
    1. supplies to the Authority any false or misleading information.

      1. It is a defence to a charge under subsection (1)(b) that the person to whom the charge relates did not know that he or she was providing false or misleading information and had exercised all reasonable care and due diligence to ensure that the information provided was not false or misleading.

      2. A person convicted of an offence under subsection (1)(a) is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine not exceeding $10,000, or both.

      3. A person convicted of an offence under subsection (1)(b) is liable to a fine not exceeding $10,000.