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Planning Bill

Enforcement and other matters - Enforcement - Duty to provide information

217: Duty to give certain information

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"When an enforcement officer thinks you're breaking a rule, they can ask you for personal details."

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If an enforcement officer thinks you are breaking a rule, they can ask you for information. They can ask for your full name, address, and date of birth if you are a person. If you are not a person, like a company, they can ask for your full name and address. If you are breaking a rule on behalf of someone else, the officer can ask you for information about that person. They can also ask that person for information about you. The officer can ask for the same details, like full name, address, and date of birth, or just full name and address. The enforcement officer has the power to ask for this information if they think a rule is being broken. You might be asked to give information about yourself or someone else. The officer can use this information to check if a rule is being broken.

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Part 6Enforcement and other matters
Enforcement: Duty to provide information

217Duty to give certain information

  1. This section applies if an enforcement officer has reasonable grounds to believe that a person (person A) is breaching, or has breached, an obligation under or provision of this Act or the regulations made under a relevant empowering provision in this Act, a regulation, a national standard, a plan rule, or a planning consent, or a national rule.

  2. The enforcement officer may direct person A to give—

  3. their full name, address, and date of birth (if that person is a natural person); or
    1. their full name and address (if that person is not a natural person).

      1. If person A is breaching, or has breached, the obligation or provision on behalf of another person (person B), the enforcement officer may also direct person A to give the officer the following information about person B:

      2. their full name, address, and date of birth (if that person is a natural person); or
        1. their full name and address (if that person is not a natural person).

          1. In the situation described in subsection (3), the enforcement officer may also direct person B give the officer the following information about person A:

          2. their full name, address, and date of birth (if that person is a natural person); or
            1. their full name and address (if that person is not a natural person).