Canada Student Financial Assistance Act

Marginal note:False statement or information

• 17 (1) Every person who, in respect of a student loan or other financial assistance to a student, knowingly makes any false statement or misrepresentation, including by omission, in an application or other document or knowingly provides any false or misleading information, including by omission, is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

• Marginal note:Limitation period

  (2) A prosecution for an offence under this Act may not be instituted later than six years after the time when the subject matter of the complaint arose.