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Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017

Levy - Returns, records, and information - FENZ may require information

95: Power to require information

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"FENZ can ask you for information and you must give it to them if you have it."

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You can be asked to give information to FENZ if you are someone mentioned in section 94(2). You must give FENZ the information they ask for if it is in your knowledge, possession, or control. If you do not give the information and you do not have a good reason, you can get in trouble.

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Returns, records, and information: FENZ may require information

95Power to require information

  1. FENZ may require a person specified in section 94(2) to provide to FENZ any information (including a return or any record that person is required to keep under section 94) within the person’s knowledge, possession, or control that FENZ considers is reasonably necessary or relevant for any purpose relating to the administration or enforcement of this Part.

  2. A person who is required to provide any information under subsection (1) must provide the information.

  3. A person who knowingly, and without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction,—

  4. in the case of an individual, to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 2 months or to a fine not exceeding $25,000, or both:
    1. in any other case, to a fine not exceeding $50,000.

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