Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 188

188 Refusal to produce—claim of reasonable excuse

(1) This section applies if a person is required to produce a stated document or thing—

(a) to an identified commission officer under a notice to discover under section 75 ; or

(b) at a commission hearing under an attendance notice; or

(c) under a section 75B requirement.

(2) The person must—

(a) in all cases, bring the document or thing to the commission officer or to the hearing if the document or thing is in the person’s possession; and

(b) produce the document or thing to the commission officer or at the hearing, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 5 years imprisonment.

(3) It is not a reasonable excuse for subsection (2) (b) to fail to produce the document or thing because producing the document or thing might tend to incriminate the person.

(4) Section 197 does not apply to a document or thing produced under this section.