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178: Offence for failing to provide inspector with correct name and residential address
or “Penalty for not giving an inspector your real name and address”
You could also call this:

“It's illegal to interfere with an inspector's work”

You must not stop an inspector from doing their job without a good reason. This means you can’t get in their way or make it hard for them to use their powers to check if people are following the rules. You also can’t try to make someone else stop the inspector from doing their job.

If you do stop an inspector from doing their job, you’re breaking the law. If you’re found guilty, you might have to pay a fine. If you’re a regular person, the fine could be up to $10,000. If you’re a company or organisation, the fine could be up to $50,000.

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or “Pretending to be a health and safety inspector is illegal”
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Inspectors and health and safety medical practitioners: Inspectors

179Offence to hinder or obstruct inspector

  1. A person must not, without reasonable cause, hinder or obstruct an inspector in exercising his or her compliance powers, or cause or attempt to cause any other person to do so.

  2. A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction,—

  3. for an individual, to a fine not exceeding $10,000:
    1. for any other person, to a fine not exceeding $50,000.

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