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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 100

Failure to give contact information

100 Failure to give contact information

(1) A person of whom a contact information requirement is made must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.
(2) It is not a reasonable excuse to fail to comply with the contact information requirement that complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the person.
(3) However, the following is not admissible in evidence against an individual in any civil or criminal proceeding—
(a) any information given by the individual in complying with the contact information requirement or a requirement under section 99 (2) or (3) (
"primary evidence" );
(b) any information, or document or other thing, obtained as a direct or indirect result of primary evidence (
"derived evidence" ).
(4) Subsection (3) does not prevent primary evidence or derived evidence being admitted in evidence in—
(a) criminal proceedings about the falsity or misleading nature of the primary evidence; or
(b) proceedings for obtaining a controlled notifiable conditions order under part 5 .
(5) Also, subsection (3) does not prevent derived evidence being admitted in evidence in criminal proceedings about a controlled notifiable condition.



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