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MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994
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Environmental Protection Act 1994
Chapter 9 Investigation and enforcement
Part 5 Offences
[s 480A]
480A Incomplete documents
(1) This section applies to a person who is required under this Act
to give a document to the administering authority or an
authorised person.
(2) The person must not give to the administering authority or
authorised person a document the person knows, or ought
reasonably to know, contains incomplete information in a
material particular.
Maximum penalty—1665 penalty units or 2 years
imprisonment.
(3) Subsection (2) 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 incomplete; and
(b) gives the complete information to the administering
authority or authorised person if the person has, or can
reasonably obtain, the information.
(4) It is enough for a complaint for an offence against subsection
(2) to state the person knew, or ought reasonably to have
known, the document was incomplete, without specifying
whether the person knew it was incomplete or whether the
person ought reasonably to have known it was incomplete.
481 False or misleading information
(1) A person must not—
(a) state anything to an authorised person that the person
knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or
(b) omit from a statement made to an authorised person
anything without which the statement is, to the person’s
knowledge, misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—1665 penalty units or 2 years
imprisonment.
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