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Obstructing authorised officers

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76 Obstructing authorised officers

A person must not:

(a) resist or obstruct, or incite or encourage another person to resist or obstruct, an authorised officer or a person lawfully assisting the officer;

(b) use threatening language or behave in a threatening manner towards an authorised officer or a person lawfully assisting the officer;

(c) fail to comply with the lawful requirements of an authorised officer or a person lawfully assisting the officer;

(d) provide to an authorised officer or a person lawfully assisting the officer particulars which are false or misleading in a material respect; or

(e) impersonate or falsely claim to be an authorised officer or falsely claim to be a person lawfully assisting an officer.

Penalty: environmental offence level 4.

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