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Water Act 2007
127Director of Meteorology may require water information
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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: