Victorian Current Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT 2017 - SECT 255

    (1)     For the purpose of performing a function or duty or exercising a power under this Act, the Authority may serve an information gathering notice on a person requiring the person to do all or any of the following—

        (a)     provide to the Authority any information or class of information specified in the notice before a specified time and in a specified manner;

        (b)     produce to the Authority a document or class of document specified in the notice that is in the person's possession, custody or control, before a specified time and in a specified manner;

        (c)     to appear before the Authority at a time and place specified in the notice to do all or any of the following—

              (i)     to give information specified in the notice, either orally or in writing;

              (ii)     to produce a document or class of document specified in the notice that is in the person's possession, custody or control.

    (2)     A person must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with a requirement under subsection (1).

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 60 penalty units;

    In the case of a body corporate, 300 penalty units.

S. 256 inserted by No. 39/2018 s. 7 (as amended by Nos 27/2019 ss 12− 30, 3/2020 ss 42– 44, 47/2020 s. 26).