Fisheries Act 1996

296ZC Supply of information relating to business of approved service delivery organisation

• (1) For the purpose of monitoring an approved service delivery organisation's compliance with regulations made under section 296ZA, standards and specifications, and directions under section 296Q, the Minister may, by notice in writing to the organisation, require the organisation to supply to the Minister specified information, data, and forecasts relating to the business, operation, or management of the organisation, and may require that information to be supplied for specified periods and in a specified form.

  (2) The Minister may revoke, vary, or amend a notice by giving a subsequent notice to the organisation.

  (3) An approved service delivery organisation commits an offence against this Act if it—

  • (a) fails to comply with any requirements of the Minister under this section; or

  • (b) supplies information or data that the organisation is required to supply under this section knowing that it is false or misleading in a material particular; or

  • (c) knowingly omits any material particular in any information or data that the organisation is required to supply under this section.

  (4) The penalty on conviction for an offence against subsection (3)(a) is set out in section 252(3).

  (5) The penalty on conviction for an offence against subsection (3)(b) or (c) is set out in section 252(1).

  Section 296ZC: inserted, on 9 September 1999, by section 65 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).