Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Where the Minister
or an inspector has reason to believe that a person is capable of giving
information or producing documents relating to petroleum exploration
operations, operations for the recovery of petroleum, operations relating to
the processing or storage of petroleum or the preparation of petroleum for
transport or operations connected with the construction or operation of a
pipeline in the adjacent area, he may, by instrument in writing served on that
person, require that person —
(a) to
furnish to him in writing, within the period and in the manner specified in
the instrument, any such information; or
(b) to
attend before him, or a person specified in the instrument, at such time and
place as is so specified and there to answer questions relating to those
operations and to produce such documents relating to those operations as are
so specified.
(2) A person is not
excused from furnishing information, answering a question or producing a
document when required to do so under this section on the ground that the
information so furnished, the answer to the question or the production of the
document might tend to incriminate him or make him liable to a penalty.
(3) However, any
information furnished, answer given or document produced pursuant to the
requirement, and any information or thing (including any document) obtained as
a direct or indirect consequence of the furnishing of the information, the
answering of the question or the production of the document, as the case may
be, is not admissible in evidence against the person in any civil proceedings
or in any criminal proceedings other than proceedings for an offence against
section 117.
[Section 115 amended: No. 42 of 2010 s. 148.]