Victorian Current Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT 2017 - SECT 266

If an authorised officer is performing a function or duty or exercising a power under this Act, a person must not do any of the following—

        (a)     hinder, delay or obstruct the authorised officer or any person assisting the authorised officer;

        (b)     conceal from the authorised officer the location or existence of any person or thing;

        (c)     use abusive, threatening or insulting language to the authorised officer or any person assisting the authorised officer.

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

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

S. 267 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).