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Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements - Foundational information disclosure requirements - Offence

54: Offence relating to requirement to disclose information

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"Breaking rules about sharing water services information can get you in trouble"

If you know that water services have to share information, you must not break the rules on purpose. You can get in trouble if you do not follow the rules about sharing information. This can happen if you are told to share information and you do not do it on time.

If you break the rules, you can be fined up to $200,000 if you are an individual, or up to $1 million if you are a company or organisation. You can also get in trouble if you are given an order under section 53 and you do not follow it. This order tells you what to do and when to do it, and you must follow it to avoid getting fined.

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Part 2Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements
Foundational information disclosure requirements: Offence

54Offence relating to requirement to disclose information

  1. A person commits an offence if—

  2. the person, knowing that water services are subject to an obligation to disclose information under this subpart, intentionally contravenes any requirement in relation to that obligation; or
    1. the person is subject to an order under section 53 and fails to comply with the order by the date, or within the period, specified.

      1. A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $200,000, in the case of an individual, or $1 million, in any other case.

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