Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BOUNTY (REFINED TIN) ACT 1980 No. 46 of 1980 - SECT 17

17. (1) The Comptroller-General, a Collector or an authorized person 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 or storage, of bountiable refined tin 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 or storage of bountiable refined tin as are referred to in
the notice.

(2) The Comptroller-General, a Collector or an authorized person may make and
retain copies of, or 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 is not
admissible in evidence against him in proceedings other than proceedings for
an offence against paragraph 19 (1) (c) or 19 (2) (c).

(4) Where a smelter, or a person employed by a smelter, 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 smelter, unless the Minister otherwise directs, until the smelter or that
person has attended, answered the question or produced the account, book,
document or other record, as the case may be.