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Public Works Act 1981

Defence works

185: Destroying or altering defence works

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“It's against the law to mess with defence stuff on government land”

If you damage, move, or destroy any defence works or markers on government land, you are breaking the law. This includes things like survey pegs, marks, blocks, posts, or poles that have been put there. You also can’t get in the way of people who are working on defence projects or surveying land for these projects. If you do any of these things, you might have to pay a fine of up to $1,000.

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Part 15 Defence works

185Destroying or altering defence works

  1. Every person commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 who, on land held by the Crown, mutilates, defaces, takes away, destroys, or alters the position of, any defence work, survey peg, mark, block, post, or pole set up or affixed thereon, or who wilfully obstructs any officer, surveyor, or his assistants or employees engaged in carrying out any defence work, or any survey of any land to be taken, acquired, or held for the purposes of a defence work.

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  • 1928 No 21 s 259
Notes
  • Section 185: amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).