Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Bounty (High Alloy Steel Products) Act 1983 No. 126 of 1983 - SECT 18

18. (1) A Collector or an authorized officer may, by notice signed by him,
require a person whom he believes to be capable of giving information relevant
to the operation of this Act in relation to the production (including the cost
of production), sale or other disposal, or use, of bountiable products to
attend before him at the time and place specified in the notice and there to
answer questions and to produce to him such accounts, books, documents and
other records in relation to the production (including the cost of
production), sale or other disposal, or use, of bountiable products as are
referred to in the notice.

(2) A notice under sub-section (1) requiring a person to produce an account,
book, document or record shall set out the effect of sub-section (3).

(3) A person who, in pursuance of a notice under sub-section (1), produces an
account, book, document or record kept, made or prepared by another person
that, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, is false or misleading
in a material particular shall, upon so producing the account, book, document
or record, give to the person to whom the first-mentioned person is required
to produce the account, book, document or record, a statement in writing
signed by the first-mentioned person or, in the case of a body corporate, by a
competent officer of the body corporate-

   (a)  stating that the account, book, document or record is, to the
        knowledge of the first-mentioned person, false or misleading in a
        material particular; and

   (b)  setting out, or referring to, the material particular in respect of
        which the account, book, document or record is, to the knowledge of
        the first-mentioned person, false or misleading.

Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.

(4) A Collector or an authorized officer may make and retain copies of, or
take and retain extracts from, any accounts, books, documents or other records
produced in pursuance of this section.

(5) A person is not excused from answering a question or producing any
accounts, books, documents or other records when required to do so under this
section on the ground that the answer to the question, or the production of
the accounts, books, documents or other records, might tend to incriminate him
or make him liable to a penalty, but his answer to any such question, or the
production of any such account, book, document or other record is not
admissible in evidence against him in criminal proceedings other than
proceedings under, or arising out of, sub-section (3) of this section,
sub-section 20 (1) by virtue of paragraph 20 (1) (c) or sub-section 20 (3) by
virtue of paragraph 20 (3) (a), being that last-mentioned paragraph in its
application to the making of a statement in pursuance of this section.

(6) Where a producer of bountiable products, or a person employed by a
producer of bountiable products, has failed to attend or to answer a question,
or to produce any account, book, document or other record, when required so to
do under this section, bounty is not payable to the producer, unless the
Minister otherwise directs by instrument in writing, until the producer or
that person, as the case may be, has attended, answered the question or
produced the account, book, document or other record, as the case may be.