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Environmental Protection Act 1994
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### sec.480A Incomplete documents
This section applies to a person who is required under this Act to give a document to the administering authority or an authorised person.
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—4,500 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
Subsection (2) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document—
informs the administering authority or authorised person of the extent to which the document is incomplete; and
gives the complete information to the administering authority or authorised person if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the information.
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.
s 480A ins 2011 No. 6 s 88
amd 2014 No. 59 s 97
(sec.480A-ssec.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.
(sec.480A-ssec.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—4,500 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
(sec.480A-ssec.3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a person who, when giving the document— informs the administering authority or authorised person of the extent to which the document is incomplete; and gives the complete information to the administering authority or authorised person if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the information.
(sec.480A-ssec.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.
- (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.