- (1)
- A person is guilty of an offence if:
- (a)
- a requirement is made of the person by an authorised officer under
paragraph 24(2)(a), (b) or (g); and
- (b)
- the person refuses or fails to comply with the requirement.
Maximum penalty: 60 penalty units.
- (2)
- A person is not entitled:
- (a)
- to refuse to answer a question that he or she is required by an authorised
officer to answer under paragraph 24(2)(g); or
- (b)
- to refuse to make available for examination documents that he or she is
required to make available by an authorised officer under paragraph 24(2)(a);
on the ground that the answer to the question or the making available of the
documents, as the case may be, might tend to incriminate him or her.
- (3)
- However, any answer so given, or the making available of any such
documents, and any information or thing (including any document) obtained as a
direct or indirect result of the giving of the answer or the making available
of the documents, is not admissible in evidence against the person in:
- (a)
- any criminal proceedings other than proceedings for an offence against
section 32; or
- (b)
- any civil proceedings.