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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 480A
Incomplete documents
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. Penalty— Maximum penalty—4,500
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.
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