Queensland Consolidated Acts

HEALTH PRACTITIONER REGULATION NATIONAL LAW (QUEENSLAND) - SECT 150A

150A Power to require information

(1) For the purpose of conducting the preliminary assessment of a referred matter, a National Board may, by written notice given to a person, require the person to give specified information or produce specified documents to the Board within a specified reasonable time and in a specified reasonable way.

(2) The person must comply with the notice unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) in the case of an individual—$5,000; or

(b) in the case of a body corporate—$10,000.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2) , it is a reasonable excuse for an individual not to give information or produce a document if giving the information or producing the document might tend to incriminate the individual.