MOTOR VEHICLE (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1943 - SECT 27B

MOTOR VEHICLE (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1943 - SECT 27B

27B .         False or misleading information

        (1)         A person must not do anything set out in subsection (2) —

            (a)         in, or in connection with, a notice or other document given under this Act; or

            (b)         in compliance, or purported compliance, with a requirement under this Act; or

            (c)         for any other purpose under this Act.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $10 000.

        (2)         The things to which subsection (1) applies are —

            (a)         making a statement that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; and

            (b)         omitting from a statement made anything without which the statement is, to the person’s knowledge, misleading in a material particular; and

            (c)         giving information that —

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

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

        [Section 27B inserted: No. 8 of 2016 s. 52.]