Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022

Obstruction

103. A person who—

(a) obstructs or interferes with an authorised person or a member of the Garda Síochána in the course of exercising a power conferred on him or her by this Act or a warrant under section 96 or impedes the exercise by the authorised person or member, as the case may be, of such power,

(b) fails or refuses to comply with a requirement of an authorised person or member of the Garda Síochána pursuant to paragraph (d) or (e) of section 95 (1) or in purported compliance with such requirement gives information or makes a declaration to the authorised person or member that he or she knows to be false or misleading in any material respect, or

(c) fails or refuses to comply with a direction of an authorised person or member of the Garda Síochána pursuant to section 95 (1)(g),

shall be guilty of an offence.