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Customer and Product Data Bill

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Regulatory powers

58: Offence for failing to comply with notice to supply information or produce documents

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“You could get in trouble for not sharing information when asked”

Under this proposed law, you could get in trouble if you don’t follow the rules about giving information when asked. If someone asks you for information or documents as part of section 54, you need to provide them. If you don’t, or if you give false or misleading information on purpose, you might be breaking the law.

If you break this law, you might have to pay a fine. For a single person, the fine could be up to $100,000. For companies or other groups, the fine could be up to $300,000.

Remember, this is not the current law, but a proposed change to the law that might happen in the future.

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Part 4 Regulatory and enforcement matters
Regulatory powers

58Offence for failing to comply with notice to supply information or produce documents

  1. A person commits an offence if the person—

  2. refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a notice under section 54; or
    1. in purported compliance with a notice under section 54, supplies information, or produces a document, knowing it to be false or misleading in a material particular.

      1. A person that commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding—

      2. $100,000 in the case of an individual:
        1. $300,000 in any other case.