Resource Sustainability Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4A · Disposable Carrier Bag Charge
23L. Direction to rectify incomplete or inaccurate information
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The Agency may, in respect of any incomplete or inaccurate information published by a person under section 23K(1), in writing direct the person to do the following within the time period specified in the direction (or any longer time that the Agency may allow in any particular case):
Agency
“Agency” means the National Environment Agency established under the National Environment Agency Act 2002;
rectify or re‑compute any information as the Agency may require;
republish the information in accordance with section 23K(2)(b),and the person must comply with the direction.
A person who fails to comply with a direction under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable —
on the first conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000; and
on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after that second or subsequent conviction.
In a prosecution for an offence under subsection (2), it is not necessary for the prosecution to prove that the defendant intended to commit the offence.
The offence under subsection (2) is a strict liability offence.