Section 213 — Social Security (Administration) Act 1999: False statement to deceive or affect rates

(1) A person contravenes this subsection if: (a) the person makes a statement; and (b) the statement is false or misleading; and (c) the person is reckless as to whether the statement is false or misleading; and (d) the person is reckless as to whether the statement: (i) deceives, or might deceive, an officer doing duty in relation to the social security law; or (ia) deceives, or might deceive, the Human Services Department; or (ii) affects, or might affect, the rate of a social security payment under the social security law. (2) For the purposes of an offence against section 217 that relates to subsection (1) of this section, strict liability applies to the following elements of the offence: (a) the element that a duty is a duty in relation to the social security law; (b) the element that a rate of payment is a rate of social security payment under the social security law.