127 Director of Meteorology may require water information (1) The Director of Meteorology may, in writing, require any person, or each person included in a class of persons, to give specified water information to the Bureau: (a) within a specified period of time; and (b) in a specified form or manner; and (c) in accordance with any applicable National Water Information Standards. (2) A person must not fail to comply with a requirement under this section. Civil penalty: 50 penalty units. (3) A person must not, in purported compliance with a requirement under this section, give to the Bureau information that is false or misleading in a material particular. (4) Subsection (2) does not apply to the extent that the person has a reasonable excuse. However, a person does not have a reasonable excuse merely because the water information in question is:

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