Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 581F

581F Examination of investigated entity or associated person

(1) An investigated entity or associated person for an investigated entity must not—

(a) fail to comply with a lawful requirement (a
"relevant requirement" ) of a special investigator to the extent the person is able to comply with it; or

(b) in purported compliance with a relevant requirement, give information to a special investigator knowing it to be false or misleading in a material particular; or

(c) when appearing before a special investigator for examination under a relevant requirement—

(i) state anything knowing it is false or misleading in a material particular; or

(ii) fail to be sworn or to make an affirmation.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—300 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving information in a document—

(a) tells the special investigator, to the best of the person’s ability, how the information is false or misleading; and

(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information to the special investigator.

(3) A person who complies with a relevant requirement of a special investigator under this section does not merely because of the compliance—

(a) contravene a provision of an Act or a law imposing a statutory or commercial obligation or restriction to maintain secrecy; or

(b) incur any civil liability.

(4) A person required to attend for examination under this chapter is entitled to the allowances and expenses prescribed by regulation.