Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 653

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.