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This legislation has been repealed.

CORPORATIONS LAW- SECT 1316A

Privilege against self-incrimination not available to bodies corporate in Corporations Law criminal proceedings
(1)
In a Corporations Law criminal proceeding, a body corporate is not entitled to refuse or fail to comply with a requirement:

(a)
to answer a question or give information; or
(b)
to produce a book or any other thing; or
(c)
to do any other act whatever;

on the ground that the answer or information, production of the book or other thing, or doing that other act, as the case may be, might tend:

(d)
to incriminate the body (whether in respect of an offence to which the proceeding relates or otherwise); or
(e)
to make the body liable to a penalty (whether in respect of anything to which the proceeding relates or otherwise).
(2)
Subsection (1) applies whether or not the body concerned is a defendant in the proceeding or in any other proceeding.

(3)
In this section:

Corporations Law, in relation to a jurisdiction, has the same meaning as in Division 2 of Part 9 of the Corporations Act 1989.

Corporations Law criminal proceeding means:

(a)
a proceeding in a court when exercising jurisdiction in respect of a criminal matter arising under the Corporations Law of this jurisdiction; or
(b)
a proceeding in a court of this jurisdiction when exercising jurisdiction in respect of a criminal matter arising under the Corporations Law of any jurisdiction.


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