New Zealand Legislation: Acts

26 Offences

• (1) Every person commits an offence against this Act who—

  • (a) without lawful excuse acts in contravention of or fails to comply in any respect with any provision of this Act or of any regulation under this Act:

  • (b) wilfully obstructs any person exercising or attempting to exercise any power under section 24:

  • (c) [Repealed]

  • (d) for the purpose of obtaining, whether for himself or any other person, the grant of any licence under this Act, or for any other purpose in relation to this Act, makes any declaration or statement which to his knowledge is false in any particular, or utters, produces, or makes use of any such declaration or statement or any document containing the same, or knowingly utters, produces, or makes use of any document which is not genuine.

  (2) Every person who commits an offence against this Act is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000, and, where the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding $500 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues.

  Compare: 1949 No 42 s 26

  Section 26(1)(c): repealed, on 1 April 1987, by section 25(1) of the Official Information Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 8).

  Section 26(2): amended, on 10 July 1967, pursuant to section 7(1) of the Decimal Currency Act 1964 (1964 No 27).

  Section 26(2): amended, on 28 July 1997, by section 2 of the Radiation Protection Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 53).