Reporting requirements

(1) A person who inadvertently or accidentally causes an act of pollution of any aspect of the environment shall without delay report such pollution to the Department and the police. (2) The police shall submit a report to the Department on any report received under sub-section (1) and take reasonable steps to protect the public. (3) Any person who fails to make a report required under this section commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars or imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or both. 24 (4) Any person who is required to give a report under this section, in giving such a report, makes a statement which is false or misleading in any material particular commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a line not less than five thousand dollars and not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or both.