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Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994

Miscellaneous provisions - Offences

73: Offences

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"Breaking the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 can get you in trouble and cost you up to $3,000."

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If you break the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994, you can get in trouble. You can be fined up to $3,000 if you do certain things. You might get in trouble if you stop the Commissioner or someone else from doing their job under this Act without a good reason. You can also get in trouble if you do not do what the Commissioner or someone else asks you to do under this Act without a good reason. If you tell the Commissioner or someone else something that you know is not true, you can get in trouble. You can get in trouble if you say you have a special job or power under this Act when you really do not.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Offences

73Offences

  1. Every person commits an offence against this Act and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $3,000 who,—

  2. without reasonable excuse, obstructs, hinders, or resists the Commissioner or any other person in the exercise of their powers under this Act:
    1. without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails to comply with any lawful requirement of the Commissioner or any other person under this Act:
      1. makes any statement or gives any information to the Commissioner or any other person exercising powers under this Act, knowing that the statement or information is false or misleading:
        1. represents directly or indirectly that he or she holds any authority under this Act when he or she does not hold that authority.

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          • Section 73: amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).