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NATIONAL CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION ACT 2009 - SECT 208

Privilege against self - incrimination not available to bodies corporate in criminal proceedings

  (1)   In proceedings in a court when exercising jurisdiction in relation to a criminal matter arising under this Act, a body corporate is not entitled to refuse or fail to comply with a requirement:

  (a)   to answer a question or give information; or

  (b)   to produce a book or any other thing; or

  (c)   to do any other act whatever;

on the ground that the answer or information, production of the book or other thing, or doing that other act might tend:

  (d)   to incriminate the body (whether in relation to an offence to which the proceedings relate or otherwise); or

  (e)   to make the body liable to a penalty (whether in relation to anything to which the proceedings relate or otherwise).

  (2)   Subsection   (1) applies whether or not the body concerned is a defendant in the proceedings or in any other proceedings.


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