WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 826 False or misleading documents

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 826

826 False or misleading documents

(1) A person must not give the chief executive or an authorised officer a document containing information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the document—

(a) tells the chief executive or authorised officer, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and

(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.

(3) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1) , it is enough to state that the document was, without specifying which, ‘false or misleading’.