Adventure Activities Standards Authority Act, 2001

Offences.

4.—(1) Any person who contravenes section 17 (6) shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Any person who contravenes section 32 (1) or 33(7) shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) A person who wilfully gives, for the purpose of entry in the register of a particular, information which he or she knows to be false or misleading in a material respect or makes any such false or misleading statement reckless as to its truth or otherwise, shall be guilty of an offence.

(4) A person who obstructs or interferes with an inspector when the inspector is exercising a power under section 36 , or who fails or refuses to comply with a request or requirement of an inspector under that section, shall be guilty of an offence.

(5) A person who wilfully gives to an inspector information which he or she knows to be false or misleading in a material respect or makes any such false or misleading statement reckless as to its truth or otherwise, shall be guilty of an offence.

(6) A person who continues to operate as an adventure activities operator in respect of a specified adventure activity after he or she has been directed to suspend or cease that adventure activity in accordance with the provisions of any scheme made under section 35 shall be guilty of an offence.

(7) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate or by a person acting on behalf of a body corporate and is proved to have been so committed with the consent, connivance or approval of, or to have been facilitated by any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other officer of such body, such a person shall also be guilty of an offence.