PART 6CIVIL ENFORCEMENT, EMERGENCY POWERS AND FURTHER OFFENCES
Reasonable facilities, information and assistance
100Offences: sections 98 and 99
1
A reservoir manager of a controlled reservoir who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any of the following requirements commits an offence—
a
the requirements of section 98 (affording of reasonable facilities to engineers),
b
the requirements of section 99 (provision of information and assistance to the Department).
2
A reservoir manager of a controlled reservoir who does any of the following commits an offence—
a
intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys any document, information or particulars which the person has been required by virtue of either of those sections to produce,
b
for the purposes of either of those sections knowingly or recklessly provides any document which is, or any information or particulars which are, false or misleading in a material respect.
3
A reservoir manager guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (2)—
a
in relation to a controlled reservoir which is, at the time the offence is committed, a high-consequence reservoir is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale,
b
in relation to any other controlled reservoir is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.