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Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017

Assessment and treatment of persons suffering from severe substance addiction - Enforcement - Offences

114: Further offences involving false or misleading documents, etc

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"Lying or giving wrong information on important documents can get you in trouble with the law"

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If you intentionally leave out important information from a notice, statement, or certificate under this Act, you commit an offence. You also commit an offence if you include false information in any of these documents that you know is wrong. If you carelessly include false or misleading information, you commit an offence too. You can be fined up to $2,000 if you are found guilty of doing any of these things. This applies to any notice, statement, or certificate that is required under the Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017.

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Part 2Assessment and treatment of persons suffering from severe substance addiction
Enforcement: Offences

114Further offences involving false or misleading documents, etc

  1. A person commits an offence if the person—

  2. intentionally omits, or intentionally causes any other person to omit, to state in any notice, statement, or certificate under this Act any particular prescribed or required by or under this Act to be included in the notice, statement, or certificate; or
    1. includes or causes to be included in any such notice, statement, or certificate any particular that he or she knows to be false in any material respect; or
      1. negligently includes or negligently causes to be included in any such notice, statement, or certificate any particular that is false or misleading in any material respect.

        1. A person who commits an offence against this section is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.