Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BOUNTY (NON-ADJUSTABLE WRENCHES) ACT 1981 No. 18 of 1981 - SECT 18

18. (1) The Comptroller-General, 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), storage or sale, of bountiable
implements 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), storage or sale of bountiable implements as are referred to in
the notice.

(2) The Comptroller-General, a Collector or an authorized officer may make
copies of, or take extracts from, any accounts, books, documents or other
records produced in pursuance of this section.

(3) A person is not excused from answering a question or producing any
accounts, books, documents or other records when required so to do 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 by him of any such accounts, books, documents or other records is
not admissible in evidence against him in proceedings other than proceedings
for an offence against paragraph 20 (1) (c) or 20 (3) or (4).

(4) Where a producer of bountiable implements, or a person employed by a
producer, 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, until the producer or that person has attended, answered the question
or produced the account, book, document or other record, as the case may be.