Section 84

Any person who wilfully or recklessly removes, destroys, damages or suffers to be damaged any licensed pipeline or hinders or prevents a licensed pipeline from being used or operated in the manner in which it is intended to be used or operated shall be guilty of an offence.

In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (1), it is a defence for the person charged to prove that the person took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.

If, in any proceedings for an offence under subsection (1), the defence involves acting on information supplied by a holder of the licence, the person charged is not, without leave of the court, entitled to rely on that defence unless the person charged has, within 14 clear days before the hearing, served on the prosecutor a written notice giving such information as was then in the possession of the person charged identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who supplied the person charged with the information.[36C