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Newspapers Act · 2013 Revised Edition
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who certifies the correctness of any particular furnished pursuant to any requirement made under this Act shall, if such particular is incorrect, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $40,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or both.
It shall be a defence to a charge under subsection (1) to prove that —
the person charged believed the particular to be correct; and
he could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence have discovered its incorrectness.