Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SHIP CONSTRUCTION BOUNTY ACT 1975 No. 79, 1975 - SECT 22

22. (1) An authorized person may, by notice in writing, require a person whom
he believes to be capable of giving information relevant to the operation of
this Act in relation to the construction, modification, sale or use of a
vessel to attend before him at the time and place specified in the notice and
there to answer questions in relation to the construction, modification, sale
or use of that vessel.

(2) A person is not excused from answering a question when required so to do
under this section on the ground that the answer to the question 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 24 (1) (b) or 24 (2) (c).

(3) Where a registered shipbuilder, or an employee of a registered
shipbuilder, has failed to attend or to answer a question in connexion with
the construction or modification of a vessel when required so to do under this
section, the registered shipbuilder, unless the Minister otherwise directs, is
not entitled to bounty in respect of that construction or modification unless
the shipbuilder or that employee attends or answers the question, as the case
may be.