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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 653
Attendance notice
(1) The committee may, on application of a party to a hearing or on its own
initiative, by written notice given to a person (an
"attendance notice" ), require the person to attend the hearing at a stated
time and place to give evidence or to produce stated documents or things.
(2)
A person given an attendance notice must not fail, without reasonable
excuse— (a) to attend as required by the notice; or
(b) to continue to
attend as required by the committee until excused from further attendance.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(3) Also at a hearing, a person
appearing as a witness must not— (a) fail to take an oath or make an
affirmation when required by the committee; or
(b) fail, without reasonable
excuse, to answer a question the person is required to answer by the
committee; or
(c) fail, without reasonable excuse, to produce a document or
thing the person is required to produce by an attendance notice.
Penalty— Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(4) It is a reasonable
excuse for an individual to fail to answer a question or produce a document or
other thing, if answering the question or producing the document or other
thing might tend to incriminate the individual.
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