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Health Acts Amendment Act 1981 No. 118 of 1981 - SECT 30
Refusal to be sworn or to answer questions
30. Section 102 of the Principal Act is amended-
(a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (c) '', book or writing'';
(b) by omitting the penalty set out at the foot of sub-section (1) and
substituting the following penalty:
''Penalty: $1,000.'';
(c) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:
''(1A) A practitioner attending before the Committee shall not, without
reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to produce a document that he is required to
produce by a summons under section 96.
Penalty: $1,000.'';
(d) by inserting after sub-section (2) the following sub-section:
''(2A) A document produced at a hearing by a practitioner is not admissible in
evidence against him in criminal proceedings except in a prosecution under or
arising out of this Act or the regulations or the National Health Act 1953 or
regulations made under that Act.''; and
(e) by omitting from sub-section (3) '', book or writing'' (wherever
occurring).
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