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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Discipline and offences - Discipline - Investigations

99: Offence to fail to comply with notice to supply information or document

You could also call this:

"Breaking the law by not giving information when asked"

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You must comply with a notice to supply information or a document under section 93(1)(b) of the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006. You cannot refuse or fail to comply without a reasonable excuse. If you supply false or misleading information, you are breaking the law. You will commit an offence if you breach this rule and can be fined up to $10,000 as an individual or $50,000 as a company if convicted.

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Discipline: Investigations

99Offence to fail to comply with notice to supply information or document

  1. No person may,—

  2. without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with a notice under section 93(1)(b); or
    1. in purported compliance with the notice, supply information, or supply a document, knowing it to be false or misleading.

      1. Every person who breaches subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 in the case of an individual, or $50,000 in the case of a body corporate.

      Notes
      • Section 99(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).