Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

66 Offence 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,—

  • (a) supplies to the Authority any false or misleading information, knowing it to be false or misleading; or

  • (b) supplies to the Authority any false or misleading information.

  (2) 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.

  (3) 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.

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