WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING ACT 2011 - SECT 264 General duties about documents or records

WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING ACT 2011 - SECT 264

264 General duties about documents or records

(1) A person must not, in relation to the administration of this Act, keep, produce or make use of a document or record the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, contains information that is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—1,665 penalty units.

(2) A person who is required to keep a document under this Act must not, without a reasonable excuse—

(a) keep it as an incorrect document; or

(b) destroy, alter or damage it; or

(c) give it to the chief executive or an authorised person if the information contained in it is incorrect or incomplete in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—1,000 penalty units.

(3) However, if a person contravenes subsection (1) or (2) with the intent to evade payment of the waste levy, the person is liable to a maximum penalty of—

(a) 2 years imprisonment; or

(b) whichever is the greater of the following amounts—

(i) 2,000 penalty units;

(ii) a fine that is twice the waste levy amount the payment of which the person sought to evade, and twice the amount of any interest payable in relation to the failure to pay the waste levy amount by the due date for its payment.