Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 733B

Scope

  (1)   This section applies to a person if the responsible Commonwealth Minister believes on reasonable grounds that the person has information or a document that is relevant to:

  (a)   the performance of a function, or the exercise of a power, conferred on the responsible Commonwealth Minister by any of the following provisions:

  (i)   section   292A;

  (ii)   section   321A;

  (iii)   section   376;

  (iv)   section   377;

  (v)   section   383;

  (vi)   section   593;

  (vii)   section   594; or

  (b)   the responsible Commonwealth Minister attaining a state of satisfaction for the purposes of a provision of section   368B.

Requirement

  (2)   The responsible Commonwealth Minister may, by written notice given to the person, require the person:

  (a)   to give to the responsible Commonwealth Minister, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice, any such information; or

  (b)   to produce to the responsible Commonwealth Minister, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice, any such documents; or

  (c)   to make copies of any such documents and to produce to the responsible Commonwealth Minister, within the period and in the manner specified in the notice, those copies.

  (3)   A period specified under paragraph   (2)(a), (b) or (c) must not be shorter than 14 days after the notice is given.

Offence

  (4)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person has been given a notice under subsection   (2); and

  (b)   the person omits to do an act; and

  (c)   the omission contravenes a requirement in the notice.

Penalty:   100 penalty units.

Civil penalty

  (5)   A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes a requirement in a notice under subsection   (2).

Civil penalty:   150 penalty units.

Notice to set out the effect of offence and civil penalty provisions

  (6)   A notice under subsection   (2) must set out the effect of the following provisions:

  (a)   subsection   (4);

  (b)   subsection   (5);

  (c)   section   733G;

  (d)   section   733H.

Note 1:   Section   733G is about giving false or misleading information.

Note 2:   Section   733H is about producing false or misleading documents.