New Zealand Legislation: Acts

13 Supply of information

• (1) Any person who uses, develops, produces, otherwise acquires, possesses, retains, or transfers an anti-personnel mine must—

  • (a) Notify the Minister of the anti-personnel mine as soon as practicable after this Act commences to apply to the mine, by giving written notice in a form approved by the Secretary and containing the information required by the form; and

  • (b) Keep records in relation to the anti-personnel mine, and the purpose to which the anti-personnel mine is put; and

  • (c) Prepare, from those records, periodic reports relating to the anti-personnel mine in a form approved by the Secretary; and

  • (d) Send those periodic reports to the Secretary at intervals specified by the Minister or by regulations made under this Act.

  (2) The records and reports under subsection (1)(b) to (d) must be sufficient to enable the Minister to determine whether the Convention and the provisions of this Act and any regulations made under this Act are being complied with.

  (3) Every person who, without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails to comply with subsection (1) commits an offence.

  (4) Every person who commits an offence against subsection (3) is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $100,000.

  Compare: 1996 No 37 s 13