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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

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

189: Offence involving personation

You could also call this:

"Pretending to be someone you're not in an emergency can be a crime"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

You could commit an offence if you pretend to be someone you are not. This includes pretending to be the Director-General, a Controller, a Recovery Manager, or a member of an Emergency Management Committee. You could also commit an offence if you pretend to be someone who is acting under the authority of one of these people. You could commit an offence if you pretend to be someone who is authorised or employed to do a job under this proposed law or an emergency management plan. If you commit this offence, you could be punished. The punishment could be a fine or imprisonment. If you are an individual, the fine could be up to $50,000 or you could be imprisoned for up to 3 months. If you are not an individual, the fine could be up to $150,000. This is what the proposed law says about personation.

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

189Offence involving personation

  1. A person commits an offence if the person by words, conduct, or demeanour intentionally personates or falsely represents themselves to be any of the following persons:

  2. the Director-General:
    1. a Controller:
      1. a Recovery Manager:
        1. a member of an Emergency Management Committee:
          1. a person acting under the authority of a person specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (d):
            1. a person authorised or employed to perform or exercise a function, duty, or power under this Act or an emergency management plan.

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

              2. in the case of an individual, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding $50,000:
                1. in any other case, to a fine not exceeding $150,000.

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                  • 2002 No 33 s 103