MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

Environmental Protection Act 1994
Chapter 9 Investigation and enforcement
Part 5 Offences

[s 470]

470        Failure to give information to administering authority
          (1)   This section applies if a person is given a notice under section
                451.
          (2)   The person must comply with the notice unless the person has
                a reasonable excuse for not complying with it.
                Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
          (3)   It is a reasonable excuse for the individual to fail to comply
                with the notice if complying with it might tend to incriminate
                the individual.
          (4)   The person does not commit an offence against this section if
                the information sought by the administering authority is not in
                fact relevant to the administration or enforcement of this Act.

471        Failure to comply with signal
          (1)   A person must obey a signal under section 459(2) to stop or
                not to move a vehicle, unless the person has a reasonable
                excuse for not obeying the signal.
                Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
          (2)   It is a reasonable excuse for the person to fail to stop or to
                move the vehicle if—
                (a)   to obey immediately the signal would have endangered
                      the person or another person; and
                (b)   the person obeys the signal as soon as it is practicable to
                      obey the signal.

472        Failure to comply with requirements about vehicles
          (1)   In this section—
                required action for a vehicle, means—
                (a)   to bring the vehicle to a place; and
                (b)   to remain in control of the vehicle at a place for a
                      reasonable time.
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