New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INTERCEPTION AND ACCESS) (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 1987 - SECT 22

22 Offences relating to inspections under Part 3

(1) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail:

(a) to attend before a person,

(b) to furnish information, or

(c) to answer a question,

when required under section 14 to do so.

(2) A person shall not:

(a) without reasonable excuse, wilfully obstruct, hinder or resist a person in connection with the exercise of the Ombudsman’s functions under Part 3, or

(b) give to an inspecting officer, in connection with an inspection under Part 3, information or a statement that the firstmentioned person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty: 10 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months.