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Freedom Camping Act 2011

Enforcement, miscellaneous, and transitional provisions - Offences, defences, and penalties - Infringement offences

20C: Other infringement offences

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“Three ways you can break the freedom camping rules”

You can commit an infringement offence in three ways related to freedom camping. First, if you show a changed or fake warrant card in your vehicle. Second, if you give an enforcement officer a changed or fake certificate of self-containment. Third, if you refuse to give information to an enforcement officer when they ask you to, or if you give them false or misleading information. The enforcement officer must be working under this law when they ask for the information.

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Part 3 Enforcement, miscellaneous, and transitional provisions
Offences, defences, and penalties: Infringement offences

20COther infringement offences

  1. A person commits an infringement offence if the person—

  2. displays in a motor vehicle an altered or a fraudulent warrant card; or
    1. presents an altered or a fraudulent certificate of self-containment to an enforcement officer acting under this Act; or
      1. refuses to give information when required to do so by an enforcement officer under section 35, or gives false or misleading information.

        Notes
        • Section 20C: inserted, on , by section 18 of the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 24).