66Conditions requiring monitoring, certification or provision of information, and related offences

66 Conditions requiring monitoring, certification or provision of information, and related offences

66 Conditions requiring monitoring, certification or provision of information, and related offences

(1) Monitoring The conditions of a licence may require—

(a) monitoring by the holder of the licence of the activity or work authorised, required or controlled by the licence, including with respect to—

(i) the operation or maintenance of premises or plant, and

(ii) discharges from premises, and

(iii) relevant ambient conditions prevailing on or outside premises, and

(iv) anything required by the conditions of the licence, and

(b) the provision and maintenance of appropriate measuring and recording devices for the purposes of that monitoring, and

(c) the analysis, reporting and retention of monitoring data.

(2) False or misleading information A holder of a licence who supplies information, or on whose behalf information is supplied, to the appropriate regulatory authority under the conditions of the licence is guilty of an offence if the information is false or misleading in a material respect.

Maximum penalty—

(a) in the case of a corporation—$2,000,000, or

(b) in the case of an individual—$500,000.

(2A) Conditions relating to certain information The conditions of a licence may require the holder of a licence to supply to the appropriate regulatory authority information relating to a pollution incident to which Part 5.7 applies in addition to the information required under that Part.

(3) Certification The conditions of a licence may require the holder of the licence to supply to the appropriate regulatory authority a statement that is certified by the holder, by another person approved by that authority or by a person prescribed by the regulations, as correct and that states all or any of the following—

(a) the extent to which the conditions of the licence, or any provisions of the regulations applicable to the activity or work authorised, required or controlled by the licence, have or have not been complied with,