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207Q: Offence to interfere with investigation site
or “You can get in trouble and have to pay money if you mess with a place where experts are looking into why a building failed.”
You could also call this:

“You can get in trouble if you go to a building failure investigation site when you're not allowed to.”

If you go to a building site that’s being investigated, and you’re not allowed to be there, you could be breaking the law. The person in charge of the investigation can stop people from entering the site. This is explained in section 207G.

If you knowingly go to the site when you’re not supposed to, and you don’t have permission or a good reason, you’re committing an offence. This means you’re breaking the law.

If you’re found guilty of this offence, you can be fined. If you’re an individual person, you might have to pay up to $10,000. If it’s a company or organisation, they might have to pay up to $50,000.

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or “You could get in trouble if you stop people from looking into why a building failed or if you don't give them the information they need.”
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207ROffence to access investigation site despite restriction or prohibition

  1. A person who intentionally accesses an investigation site in breach of a restriction or prohibition imposed under section 207G without the chief executive’s permission or any other reasonable excuse—

  2. commits an offence; and
    1. is liable on conviction,—
      1. in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding $10,000; or
        1. in any other case, to a fine not exceeding $50,000.

        Notes
        • Section 207R: inserted, on , by section 20 of the Building Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 27).