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Fisheries Act 1996

Miscellaneous provisions - Provisions relating to applications

305C: Chief executive may require additional information

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"The chief executive can ask for more information when you make a request."

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The chief executive can ask you for more information if you apply or make a request under the Fisheries Act 1996. You must give the chief executive the information they need to consider your application or request. The chief executive can also ask you to provide this information in a statutory declaration, which is a special written statement that is sworn to be true.

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Part 16Miscellaneous provisions
Provisions relating to applications

305CChief executive may require additional information

  1. The chief executive may require an applicant or a person who makes a request under this Act to provide such relevant additional information or evidence as the chief executive considers necessary on reasonable grounds to enable the chief executive to consider the applicant's application or request.

  2. The chief executive may require any such information or evidence to be given by way of a statutory declaration.

Notes
  • Section 305C: inserted, on , by section 70 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).