MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

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

                                                                            [s 480]

                     (ii) the risk of death or injury to humans and animals;
                          and
                     (iii) loss or damage to property.
              Maximum penalty—2000 penalty units.

480      False or misleading documents
        (1)   A person must not give to the administering authority or an
              authorised person a document containing information that the
              person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is false or
              misleading in a material particular.
              Maximum penalty—1665            penalty    units    or    2   years
              imprisonment.
        (2)   Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who, when giving
              the document—
              (a)    informs the administering authority or authorised person
                     of the extent to which the document is false or
                     misleading; and
              (b)    gives the correct information to the administering
                     authority or authorised person if the person has, or can
                     reasonably obtain, the correct information.
        (3)   It is enough for a complaint for an offence against subsection
              (1) to state the person knew, or ought reasonably to have
              known, the document was false or misleading, without
              specifying which of the following applies—
              (a)    the person knew it was false;
              (b)    the person knew it was misleading;
              (c)    the person ought reasonably to have known it was false;
              (d)    the person ought reasonably to have known it was
                     misleading.




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