Product Grants and Benefits Administration Act 2000

PENALTY FOR MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS  
36(1)
You are liable to a penalty if:

(a) you make a false statement to a person who is exercising powers, or performing functions, under or in connection with this Act or an entitlement Act (whether or not you know that the statement is a false statement); and

(b) the amount of a grant or benefit that would have been payable to you in respect of a claim period if the statement was not false exceeds the amount of the grant or benefit properly payable to you in respect of that claim period.

36(2)
The amount of the penalty is double the excess.