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BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 229G

Protection against self-incrimination

    (1)     It is a reasonable excuse for a natural person to refuse or fail to give information, including information required to be given under section 246(2), or do any other thing that the person is required to do by or under this Division, if the giving of the information or the doing of that other thing would tend to incriminate the person.

    (2)     Despite subsection (1), it is not a reasonable excuse for a natural person to refuse or fail to produce a document that the person is required to produce by or under this Division, if the production of the document would tend to incriminate the person.

    (3)     Despite subsection (1), it is not a reasonable excuse for a natural person to refuse or fail to provide information or assistance that a person is required under section 228P to provide, if the provision of the information or assistance would tend to incriminate the person.

S. 229H inserted by No. 21/2017 s. 46.



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