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LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 199

199 .         Obstructing workers, causing damage etc., offence etc.

        (1)         A person must not wilfully and without lawful excuse —

            (a)         obstruct or interfere with any engineer, architect, surveyor, overseer, worker, or other person in the performance of any duty or in doing any work which they have authority to do under this Part; or

            (b)         obstruct, interfere with, damage, destroy or remove anything constructed, provided or done, under this Part; or

            (c)         damage, destroy or remove any fence on land entered on or occupied under this Part.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $2 000.

        (2)         The cost of any repair or reinstatement or the clearing of any obstruction necessitated by an action referred to in subsection (1) is recoverable by the Minister from the person in a court of competent jurisdiction.

        [Section 199 amended: No. 4 of 2023 s. 91 and 92.]



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