54B—Conditions requiring certificate of compliance
(1) The Authority may,
by conditions of an environmental authorisation, require the holder of the
authorisation to supply to the Authority certificates of compliance that
include any of the following information:
(a) the
extent to which the conditions of the authorisation have or have not been
complied with;
(b)
particulars of any failure to comply with the conditions and the reasons for
such failure;
(c) any
action taken, or to be taken, to prevent any recurrence of that failure or to
mitigate the effects of that failure.
(2) A certificate of
compliance must, if required by the Authority, be certified as correct by a
person approved by the Authority.
(3) It is not an
excuse for a person to refuse or fail to provide information required to be
included in a certificate of compliance on the ground that to do so might tend
to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a penalty.
(4) If compliance by a
person with a requirement to include information in a certificate of
compliance might tend to incriminate the person or make the person liable to a
penalty, then the information included in compliance with the requirement is
not admissible in evidence against the person in proceedings for an offence or
for the imposition of a penalty (other than proceedings in respect of the
making of a false or misleading statement).