Planning Act 2023
474Information requirements
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474 Information requirements (1) This section applies if the territory planning authority suspects on reasonable grounds that a person— (a) has information reasonably required by the authority for the administration or enforcement of this Act; or (b) has possession or control of a document containing that (2) The territory planning authority may give the person a written notice requiring the person to give the information or produce the document to the authority (an information requirement notice). (3) The notice must include details of the following: (a) the identity of the person to whom it is given; (b) why the information is required; (c) the time by which the notice must be complied with; (d) the operation of subsection (4). (4) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally contravenes an information requirement notice. Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units. (5) A person does not incur any civil or criminal liability only because the person gives information or a document to the territory planning authority in accordance with an information requirement notice.