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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Information, enforcement, compensation, appeals, and secondary legislation - Offences

186: Offence involving disclosure or use of information

You could also call this:

"Telling secrets or using information you shouldn't can be a crime"

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If you break the rules about keeping information secret, you might commit an offence. You do this if you tell someone or use information when you are not supposed to, as stated in section 74(g) or 173. If you are found guilty, you could go to prison or get a big fine.

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185: Offence involving withholding information or giving false or misleading information, or

"Telling Lies or Hiding Information is Against the Law"

187: Offence involving failure to comply with compliance order, or

"Breaking a compliance order can lead to a big fine."

Part 5Information, enforcement, compensation, appeals, and secondary legislation
Offences

186Offence involving disclosure or use of information

A person who intentionally discloses or uses information in breach of section 74(g) or 173 commits an offence.
A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction,—
in the case of an individual, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding $50,000:
in any other case, to a fine not exceeding $150,000.

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2002 No 33 s 97