Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 520

520 Power of receiver to require documents or information

(1) A receiver for a law practice may require—

(a) a person who is an associate or former associate of the practice; or

(b) a person who has or has had control of documents relating to the affairs of the practice; or

(c) a person who has information relating to regulated property of the practice or property that the receiver believes to be regulated property of the practice;

to give the receiver either or both of the following—

(d) access to documents relating to the affairs of the practice that the receiver reasonably requires;

(e) information relating to the affairs of the practice that the receiver reasonably requires and, if stated in the requirement, verified by statutory declaration.

(2) A person who is subject to a requirement under subsection (1) must comply with the requirement unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(3) When making the requirement, the receiver must warn the person it is an offence to fail to give the information unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

(4) It is, for example, a reasonable excuse for an individual to fail to comply with the requirement if complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the person.