EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 - SECT 28A
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 - SECT 28A
28A—Offences against Part 4 Division 6
(1) A person who fails
to comply with a direction of the Minister under section 27C is guilty of
an offence.
Maximum penalty: $250 000.
(2) A person required
to give information, or produce documents, to the Minister under
section 27D must provide the information or produce documents within the
time, or at the times, specified by that Minister.
Maximum penalty: $100 000.
(3) A prosecution for
an offence against subsection (1) or (2) may only be commenced with the
consent of the Minister.
(4) In any legal
proceedings an apparently genuine certificate, purporting to be signed by the
Minister, certifying that the Minister consented to the commencement of a
prosecution referred to in subsection (3) will, in the absence of proof
to the contrary, be accepted as proof of the matters so certified.
(5) An offence against
subsection (1) or (2) may be prosecuted as an indictable offence or
summary offence at the discretion of the prosecutor but, if prosecuted as a
summary offence, the maximum penalty that may be imposed is a fine not
exceeding $10 000.
(6) In this
section—
"Minister" has the same meaning as in Part 4 Division 6.